[ale] how long will it take?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:02, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Depends if your drive(s) are SCSI or IDE?

Since it's hda, its IDE.

read/write block-by-block of the same drive will take a while. Figure
20-30 minutes. I did a 40G drive to a new drive on a seperate IDE
controller. That took 45 minutes (with read errors from the dying
drive).
> 
> If IDE are they on the same channel and how much memory you have as well 
> as speed of processor.
> 
> If SCSI which one? III, UW160, or UW 320,,yadda, yadda, yadda?
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any idea how long it will take to do something like:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda12
> >
> > Where /dev/hda1 is 7 gig?
> >
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