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# 8  
Old 04-27-2011
Does the clone show the same label as the original? I think some things are stored where dd does not go. Do they look alike on fdisk? They could be formatted to different block size or something.
# 9  
Old 04-28-2011
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
Does the clone show the same label as the original? I think some things are stored where dd does not go. Do they look alike on fdisk? They could be formatted to different block size or something.
Also, the printer could be reading the drive firmware for some data.
# 10  
Old 04-29-2011
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Originally Posted by achenle
Also, the printer could be reading the drive firmware for some data.
Yeah, possible, but stupid beyond what is needed to interface the device, which should be portable with a range of devices. Smart manufacturers have at least the potential to switch vendors or upsize in different models. However, we have noticed smart is optional. Smilie
# 11  
Old 05-03-2011
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
Does the clone show the same label as the original? I think some things are stored where dd does not go. Do they look alike on fdisk? They could be formatted to different block size or something.
There are no disk blocks that dd doesn't copy. If he copied sda into sdb raw, or whatever the raw disks were, they'll be identical down to the partition tables.

If. We don't know that yet.
# 12  
Old 05-05-2011
As a stream of bytes, yes, but what if sector size is different?
# 13  
Old 05-05-2011
Doesn't matter for SATA/PATA drives except for performance reasons.

We still await the answer of what he actually typed, anyway.
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