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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: IDE to SCSI disk dup Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 22:48:24 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4p52tj$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <4p4a85$bnd@shiva.usa.net> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.164.199.184 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 steve@smallweb.com (Steve Suhre) wrote: >I will be upgrading a server from an IDE disk to SCSI. I would like to >install the SCSI drive and copy directly from disk to disk, the IDE >drive will then be moved off to another machine. Will "dd" work with >the respective drives listed for "if" and "of"? Is there another >recommended way? Having both drives installed on your PC and both mounted will help first of all. Then what I usually do is tar the whole drive, and just move the tar file to the newly formatted SCSI disk, and untar it. After about 15 times doing this on various setups, it seems to work flawlessly. Let me know how it works out. Lance