> The server uses a CF card in place of a hard disk. The server oddly enough is
> Windows 98 SE based. I have a CentOS 7 box with a USB CF card reader.
> I am trying to image the CF card and write the image to a second CF card.
> Kind of a, make a backup to experiment with scenario and use the backup.
>
> This my CentOS 7 box doesn't work:
>
> $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=win98seQSP2predrivers.img bs=1M count=1000
> status=progress
^^^^^
>
> The file created cannot be mounted. If you write it to another CF card, you
> get garbage.
Not all CF card respond well to large read or write requests, you may wish
to try, the much slower but almost certain to work, bs=512.
Also why are you using count? Just let dd hit EOM (end of media).
I usually do "disk" type imaging of this type of stuff with bs=32768, most
devices
seem to be ok with that. If I get a bad image I go back to 512 and take the
slow
road.
ALSO incase of errors, check your dmesg! And use:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=XXX conv=noerror,sync bs=32k status=progress.
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Rod Grimes [email protected]
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