Quote Originally Posted by orbitbsl
...This there anything that can be done to speed up the dd? I need to clone a Windows XP drive that can only be read in Linux. It is 250Gb so it is going to take at least 2 days.
Did you enable dma in the kernel cheatcode ?
Did you enable the 32bit mode (hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hda) ?
My two cents,
Gilles