Neil Schneider wrote:
It's that simple, but I would do dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc so they
are both on different channels. If they are on the same IDE channel it
will be really slow and take a long time.
It will already be slow because of them being IDE drives.
Back up your statement, sir!
Internal transfer rates max out at about 100 Megabytes/second. This
maxes out at about 150 Megabytes/second for anything reasonable.
The defining characteristic: RPM. It doesn't matter whether the
interface is SCSI or IDE, the difference is all in the spindle speed.
Even a parallel ATA interface is quite capable of keeping up with all
but the newest and fastest drives.
If the system has a serial ATA interface, then it is capable of handling
effectively *all* existing drives just fine.
-a
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