FW: Tek XD88 (disk copying / sectors etc)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu Feb 15 17:29:24 2001

Joe skrev:

> That should work EXCEPT that he can no longer boot the machine bue to
>the failed disk drive. He needs to mount the drive in another machine and
>duplicate it there. However, it's very unlikely that he'll be able to find
>a machine that can read the old drive and correctly interpret the data.
>Therefore, he needs to find a way to just read it as raw data and make an
>EXACT copy of it on the new drive. The copy will have to be exact since it
>will include the i-node tables and all the other things that make up a Unix
>file system. That's why I suggested one of the disk duplicating programs
>like Ghost.

Aha, so that was the missing link. I'm sorry for being so thick.

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