increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:38AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Christoph Kukulies, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror

Give it a bigger blocksize (say, bs=1m or so) and it'll go a **LOT**
faster.


> My motherboard is an ASUS P4S8X with an on board promise controller
> (currently not in use). System disk is on IDE1 and the two 80GB
> disks are master/slave on IDE2 bus.

You'll get much better results by having each drive be master on its
own bus.



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