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From: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Copying Diskettes
Keywords: diskette, copy, slow
Message-ID: <26B9D6A8.8507@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 3 Aug 90 19:55:20 GMT
Sender: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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I need to copy a lot of diskettes on our RT running AIX 2.2.1.  I have two
1.2 Mb floppies.  If I use:
		dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1
it takes a ridiculous amount of time.  Is there a faster way? (Maybe the
right way?)
.....rob

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