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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:39:20PM -0700, Jwelch wrote:
>This is some good stuff, thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it.
>The problem I have now is that every time I try to DD the drive, it freezes
>on me. I have tried it 3 times and it freezes on the same number of bytes
>every time.
>
>$ nc -l -p 7000 | dd of=/dev/sda
> punt!
>16+0 records in
>16+0 records out
>8192 bytes (8.2 kB) copied, 972.875 s, 0.0 kB/s
>
>Is there any way I can check for errors or any of you guys have an idea why
>it would do this?

Try varying the block size.  Does that make a difference?

i.e., bs=4096

cgf

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