Copying Diskettes

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In article <26B9D6A8.8507 at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, rob at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) writes:
> I need to copy a lot of diskettes on our RT running AIX 2.2.1.  I have two
> 1.2 Mb floppies.  If I use:
> 		dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1
> it takes a ridiculous amount of time.  Is there a faster way? (Maybe the
> right way?)
> ......rob
> 
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	I have copied disk by copying the device as a file in the past. i.e.:

	cp /dev/fd0 /disk1
	cp /disk1 /dev/fd1

This works well and may be faster.

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Kevin-john Conway
...a librarian from hell...

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University of Western Ontario
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