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Subject: Re: Copying Diskettes
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Date: 6 Aug 90 14:16:26 GMT
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In article <26B9D6A8.8507@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) writes:
> 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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	I have copied disk by copying the device as a file in the past. i.e.:

	cp /dev/fd0 /disk1
	cp /disk1 /dev/fd1

This works well and may be faster.

-- 
Kevin-john Conway
...a librarian from hell...

School of Library and Information Science
University of Western Ontario
London Canada
"...deviants from the norm..."

"My ideas may be silly, but I'm not.  I'm positively skewed!"

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