>classiccomp-tech_at_bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 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...)
Jerome Fine replies:
I realize that you are probably not running Windows 98 SE,
but I have a Pentium III running Windows 98 SE (because I
use E11 to run PDP-11 programs and this is the ONLY
operating system which works) and use GHOST for backups.
I also have an AHA2940 as well and I see that GHOST has
an option to make exact copies of ANYTHING! So you
don't even need to have a directory that GHOST recognizes.
Just thought this might be helpful????
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 18:45:13 BST