RE: [MLUG] Hard drive question

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't think it is common in low end systems, but I think since most
chipsets include IDE, the interface it there, and an add on SCSI
controller would mean that it would have both. As far as I know the
differences are mostly taken care of by the drivers. The IDE is more
generic, and the SCSI has different types of "devices" in the /dev/
directory, depending on what kind of device it is... Were they asking
about a raw transfer, like a partition backup with dd and not mounting
the drives?
I'd do mount points, mount the drives (Slightly different for each due
to the different /dev/... devices) and use tar to do the copy. That's
the classical way to transfer files on a *NIX system with out changing
permissions.


Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer

 

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> I am curious, mainly cause i was intrigued by a Linux Admin test I
took
> for a job last night, and i didn't really know.  One question asked
> about transferring data from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive. Can anyone
> explain this to me?  I figured Linux just saw it as another hard
drive,
> not necessarily a "different type" of drive.  So, i'm just wondering
if
> anyone can help me out with that. I haven't ever come across this, but
> doesn't mean i won't someday.  how many computers actually have both
> types? don't mostly motherboards and such stick to one type of connect
> for drives?
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