On 30 Jan 2003, Craig White wrote: > As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahead > and did it. > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512 > > and it worked fine (target drive was slave on secondary controller, > hence /dev/hdd Would it work to use /dev/ht0 instead of /dev/hdd to dump to tape. If so, do you swap /dev/hda with /dev/ht0 to recover data? TIA -- Bob Holtzman "A man is a man who will fight with a sword, Or tackle Mount Everest in snow; But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford, Who will try for six thousand in low!" Roger Huntington