At 7:02 AM -0700 11/20/06, Kevin Kempter wrote: >Hi list; > >I've recently returned to Fedora from SuSE. With SuSE I would always backup my >main laptop hard drive to a second drive via dd as follows: >1) boot into single user mode (init 1) >2) run dd if=/dev/SRC of=/dev/TARGET conv=noerror,sync bs=4k #where SRC = >my current OS drive and TARGET = the backup drive > >I tried this yesterday with my new FC6 install. It from about 7:30pm until >7:00am and I saw a message on the screen, something like this: > >Firmware error detected, ipw2200, restarting > >Any thoughts? I suspect 12 hours is way too slow for a dd of a 100G drive. >With SuSE it took about 3 hours (not that I would ever consider returning to >the new M$ SuSE) DMA? As root, "hdparm /dev/whatever". Does the grub kernel boot line contain "ide=nodma"? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
