dd *very* slow (0.5KB/s) from IDE to SCSI - longish

2003-03-06 Thread S W
SUMMARY: I'm trying to transfer a working 4.7-RELEASE from an IDE disk to a SCSI disk using dd, but transfer of 3GB will take ~16 hours :o( uname -a: FreeBSD aaa.bbb.ccc 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Re: dd *very* slow (0.5KB/s) from IDE to SCSI - longish

2003-03-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-07T03:03:51Z, S W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I dropped that idea, but I'd read a post somewhere about dd, I tried... dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/da0 ...now the IDE activity LED has been on solid for about 4hours dd's performance is highly depending on the size of its buffers, which are