Subject: Re: need to duplicate a hard drive
To: Chris Cameron <chris@onemind.com>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/22/2002 14:56:40
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 @ 11:17am (-0400), Chris Cameron wrote:

CC> Hi,
CC>
CC> I have a drive that is failing that I need to copy all the data from before
CC> it dies... I have an absolutely identical drive to copy it to (same model
CC> #,etc)
CC>
CC> I've tried dd if=/dev/wd0c of =/dev/wd1c (where wd0 is the old drive and wd1
CC> is the new)
CC>
CC> But I get the error message 'device /dev/wd0c not configured'.

# grep ^wd /var/run/dmesg

 -lava

CC>
CC> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
CC>
CC> Thanks,
CC> -Chris
CC>

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