Imaging SCSI hard disks

From: classiccomp-tech_at_bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk <(classiccomp-tech_at_bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk)>
Date: Mon Aug 30 10:00:00 2004

I've a couple of SCSI hard drives (DEC RZ24-S) that I'd like to do a
complete image of. If I stick them in a linux box and do a dd on them,
will it copy all the blocks from the device, or am I going to get
messed around by the PC BIOS INT13 doing stupid CHS translation on the
otherwise LBA device and potentially miss some blocks at the end of
the device? Does Linux go through the SCSI cards BIOS or does it talk
directly to the carsd hardware & so do raw LBA?
Of course, it probably all depends on the version of linux I'd use.
Any suggestions?

ta
greg

(note, I've not actually got a linux box setup to do this at this
point in time, I've an AHA2940 lined up to stick in a PC and then
figure out the wonderfull world of SCSI on linux...)
Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 10:00:00 BST