Failing Disk

[Jim Canfield]

   [1]m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:

 Troy,

  

 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:23:26 -0700
 From: Troy Knabe [2]<knabe at 4j.lane.edu> 

 Thanks.  Just to clarify, I can't run the dd while the system is up and running normally?
    

 Um, don't try to dd /dev, btw....

     mark "me? tar? dd? no, never (what never? hardly ever....)"

  

   Mark,

   Did I give bad advice?  I have used dd quite a bit and never had any
   problems.  Granted I am always copying to identical drives.  Now that I
   think about it, it would be important to have identical disk geomerty
   (cylinders, heads, sectors).  Sorry Troy, guess I'm exposing my ignorance.
   :)

   -Jim

    

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