[ale] Re: dd - how long should it take?

[jdr at xcorps.net]

J.M. Taylor writes: 

> 
> Greetings ALErs 
> 
> Anybody ever been crazy/desperate enough to dd a 9gb SCSI disk?
> We've had a dd going on a Sun 450 for hours now.  dd as far as I know 
> doesn't offer verbose, so it's just quietly sitting there.  *Something* is 
> happening between the disks b/c the little green lights are flickering on 
> them.   
> 
> This has 4 400Mhz processors (but during dd only one would be used, 
> afaik).  No idea the amount of ram, except that it's over 1Gb.  We used a 
> 1024 block size..the disk we're dd'ing from is giving us some going-bad 
> warnings so we don't want to access it too much for fear of it outright 
> dying.  Any advice on how long this should take would be...calming. :) 
> 

I'd start worrying after 5 hours. 

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Jonathan