Duplicating a Hard Drive

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#1

Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

#2

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <parsonsj@esi.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

#3

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

#4

That’s qdn.qnx.com

John Parsons wrote:

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

#5

Gee I was hoping that I had got it right with qnx.qnx.com because there is
nothing about duplicating a QNX OS hard drive of 2G to a larger hard drive at
‘qdn.qnx.com’. You see I had already looked up there, that is why I ask the
question. As far as the ‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/’ I’m going to take a guess
this is the old BBS system which my firewall will not let me contact any more. So
is there any other place you might have stuffed the ‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/
called QNX_drive_copy*’ so one could look at it.

John

Dean Douthat wrote:

That’s qdn.qnx.com

John Parsons wrote:

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

#6

Just a little add on to the last message. I can get to
‘http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/dir_find.cgi?/usr/free/qnx4/os/’ but from here there
is no ‘utils’ or ‘disk’ selection.

John

Dean Douthat wrote:

That’s qdn.qnx.com

John Parsons wrote:

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other. Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

#7

“John Parsons” <parsonsj@esi.com> wrote in message
news:3AA534E1.1521A278@esi.com…

Gee I was hoping that I had got it right with qnx.qnx.com because there
is
nothing about duplicating a QNX OS hard drive of 2G to a larger hard drive
at
‘qdn.qnx.com’. You see I had already looked up there, that is why I ask
the
question. As far as the ‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/’ I’m going to take
a guess
this is the old BBS system which my firewall will not let me contact any
more. So
is there any other place you might have stuffed the
‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/
called QNX_drive_copy*’ so one could look at it.

this is not bbs, this is ftp.

ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/QNX_drive_copy.gz
ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/QNX_drive_copy.gz.readme

// wbr

John

Dean Douthat wrote:

That’s qdn.qnx.com

John Parsons wrote:

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will
see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard
drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive
any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I
have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would
seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to
do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes
correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the
drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work
so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other.
Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

Ian Zagorskih
Novosoft CyBearNet Department
Custom software development and web design since 1992
E-mail: ianzag@novosoft.ru
Phone: +7 (3832) 39-72-60, 39-72-61
Fax: +7 (3832) 39-63-58
For more visit www.novosoft-us.com

#8

We can no longer FTP data from your site. It was decited by our corp office
that FTP was not safe and we are no longer allowed to use that operations. Is
there another way to reach these locations.

John

“Ian M. Zagorskih” wrote:

“John Parsons” <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3AA534E1.1521A278@esi.com> …
Gee I was hoping that I had got it right with qnx.qnx.com because there
is
nothing about duplicating a QNX OS hard drive of 2G to a larger hard drive
at
‘qdn.qnx.com’. You see I had already looked up there, that is why I ask
the
question. As far as the ‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/’ I’m going to take
a guess
this is the old BBS system which my firewall will not let me contact any
more. So
is there any other place you might have stuffed the
‘usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/
called QNX_drive_copy*’ so one could look at it.


this is not bbs, this is ftp.

ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/QNX_drive_copy.gz
ftp://ftp.qnx.com/usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/QNX_drive_copy.gz.readme

// wbr

John

Dean Douthat wrote:

That’s qdn.qnx.com

John Parsons wrote:

What is ‘qnx.qnx.com’ my Netscap does not go there?

Randy Martin wrote:

if you go to qdn.qnx.com and search for ‘copy hard disk’ you will
see some
hints. a good start is some scripts provided by some users in:

usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/ called QNX_drive_copy*


John Parsons <> parsonsj@esi.com> > wrote:
Hi All,

I have a need to duplicate several hard drives. My base hard
drives is
2111 MB (2GB) in size. I can no longere get the same type of drive
any
longer so I need to duplicate the drive to a different size. I
have
some 4.32 GB drive that would meet our needs just fine. It would
seem
that for some reason QNX will not duplicate unlike all the other
operating system that we have. I have tried Ghost 5.1 and 2001 to
do
this duplication, it seems that the duplication completes
correctly.
When I try out the newly duplicated drive the QNX porsion of the
drive
no longer works. I do not know how to make the ‘dd’ command work
so it
would make this type of duplication from one size to the other.
Anyone
out there got any ideas how to do this?

John

–
Randy Martin > randy@qnx.com
Manager of FAE Group, North America
QNX Software Systems > www.qnx.com
175 Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Tel: 613-591-0931 Fax: 613-591-3579

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Ian Zagorskih
Novosoft CyBearNet Department
Custom software development and web design since 1992
E-mail: > ianzag@novosoft.ru
Phone: +7 (3832) 39-72-60, 39-72-61
Fax: +7 (3832) 39-63-58
For more visit > www.novosoft-us.com