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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Copying Diskettes
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.153536.939@acheron.uucp>
Date: 5 Aug 90 15:35:36 GMT
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From article <26B9D6A8.8507@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, by rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald):
> 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?)

You left off blocksize so it copies 512 bytes at a time. Try:

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1 bs=256k

I did the same thing.  You'll be amazed at the difference ...
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