Re: Replacing a failing HD

[Ramakrishna Nalla]

But, won't doing a dd between two disks with incompatible sizes create a bad
partition table on the destination drive?

TIA,
Rama

On 10/19/05, Bob Ababurko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Craig Deal wrote:
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> >
> >>>Hope it's ok to continue this thread, but can you explain in more
> >>>detail how to use dd to copy a HD. I read "man dd" and was
> >>
> >>unable to
> >>
> >>>figure out how this is done.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Craig
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> >>This is what I have done in the past.
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> >>dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=8192b
> >>
> >>where da0 is the disk you want to copy and da1 is the new,
> >>blank disk.
> >>I should also mention that it is wise to do this in single
> >>user mode. I actually have read this somewhere and
> >>understand the point of it, but I must also say that I have
> >>done it both ways and they have both worked.
> >>YMMV I would have to say it is all dependant and what you
> >>have running.
> >>
> >>I have done this too many times to count and it is very easy.
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> >>peace,
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> > I tried this and got the following error:
> >
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51
> error=40
> > LBA=8387712
> >
> > Any ideas what the problem might be? Do the hard drives have to be
> > identical? One is a 30Gb and the other is a 60GB.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Craig
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> I would think that you can dd from a small drive to a large drive, but
> if the is possible _definitely_ not the other way around. Which size
> are source and dest. drive?
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Re: Eclipse unusably slow

[Ramakrishna Nalla]

Please try turning off automatic 'Code Assist' for java to speed up the
Editor response. That was on thing which was causing a lot of problem on my
outdated PC.

HTH
Rama

On 10/2/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I just tried Eclipse for the first time on FreeBSD. When I type eclipse
> at the command prompt it takes 3-4 minutes to start (my computer boots
> quicker than that!). Looking at systat or top shows that java is taking
> all my processor time. After it's up and running and I start a new java
> project, the editor exhibits similar behaviow. I try to type
> "System.out.println("hello eclipse");", but the editor will freeze at
> "Sys". After 1 or 2 minutes it unfreezes and I can type "tem." before
> it freezes again. At first I thought it was the check errors as you
> type option, but turning that off didn't fix the editor, and that
> shouldn't affect the startup time. This is an Athlon 64 3000+ system
> running in i386 mode, so it shouldn't take that long.
>
> Vital stats: eclipse-3.1_3, jdk-1.4.2p7_1, 5.4-RELEASE-p7 i386
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> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Micah
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