cloning a boot partition

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>
>>>>karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>On 6/16/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've
>>>>>>>just unpacked a little EIDE to USB adapter device that is supposed to
>>>>>>>allow me to attach a raw EDIE drive to the system as a USB drive.
>>>>>>>(We'll see if it works in 20 minutes!) ;-) Anyway, I expect that the
>>>>>>>EIDE drive will be /dev/hda and the USB drive with be /dev/sda. Would
>>>>>>>something like this work?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Unfortunately it appears that this little USB to EIDE adapter I got
>>>>>
>>>>>>from Newegg doesn't work. (Or the drive is bad which seems unlikely)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156001
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It appears to me that the issue is USB 2.0, which probably isn't
>>>>>backward
>>>>>compatible to USB 1.1, which I'd bet you need in order to get it to
>>>>>work.
>>>>
>>>>Uh, USB2.0 will run USB1.1 devices if that's what you mean.  Note that
>>>>olders computers can't boot USB devices unless a BIOS update has been
>>>>performed.  Also, USB hard disks show up as SCSI (just like just about
>>>>everything else that isn't IDE/EIDE/ATA).
>>>
>>>
>>>I beg to differ. Here at work, we install quite a few USB devices and
>>>have
>>>too many problems installing USB2.0 devices on PCs with USB1.1
>>>ports/drivers. Yes, USB2.0 is backward compatible, however, USB1.1 isn't
>>>forward compatible and on drives we've installed that are addressed to
>>>USB2.0 and larger than about 64MB addressable memory, we have
>>>significant
>>>problems.
>>
>>If you read what I wrote, I said "USB2.0 will run USB1.1 devices".  I
>>said nothing about 1.1 running 2.0 devices, which it obviously can't.
> 
> 
> Hey, I had a senior moment... I'm 50 now. Aren't I entitled? Okay, I don't
> believe in entitlements. Now what? Senility?

Well, I'm 47.  "Growing old ain't for sissies!"  --Bette Davis
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