Thanks Hurst and Ralph, I'll give these ideas a try. -Dex > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Behalf Of Horst > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:28 > > as Ralph said -- or, since I remember you having several HDs, could use > swapoff /dev/hdx* and swapon /dev/hdy* > selectively by looking at 'cat /proc/swaps' or 'swapon -s'. > Look at mkswap to create a swap partion or file on another drive. <snip> > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Ralph Zeller wrote: > > > swapoff -a > > > > On 12/31/02 09am, Dexter Graphic wrote: > > > I just tried copying my partitions one at a time with DMA support turned > > > on and there were no DMA errors reported. You may recall that when I copied > > > the entire drive at once (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k) with DMA turned > > > on I got DMA and CRC errors in both Debian and Red Hat. So I wonder if this > > > may have been caused by copying my active swap partition? Is there any way to > > > turn off use of the swap portion during my dd backup process? -Dex
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