31 Aug
2004
31 Aug
'04
7:55 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:00:00 +0100
classiccomp-tech(a)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,
It will copy every sector from the
disk, from the first to the last.
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?
CHS and LBA are more or less IDE / BIOS "problems".
Does Linux go through the SCSI cards BIOS or does it
talk
directly to the carsd hardware & so do raw LBA?
Linux does not use the BIOS to
access disks. Even for IDE disks.
Of course, it probably all depends on the version of
linux I'd use.
The version has no effect on this.
If you have no Linux machine yet, you may have a look at "knoppix".
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/