I think you'll find that Rameez was joking.

I got the joke, you obviously didn't!!

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It was a joke !!

he he!

I know, Rameez.

Obviously some people don't have a sense of humour.

Or a poor understanding of English

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Other people visiting the forum may not know it was a joke. Just wanted to make it clear and didn't intend to offend anyone.

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you play "pun"

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Hello Everybody,

I know I'm a bit late in the discussion I'm using HD duplicator and it works really great for me. I don't have UDMA PC3K so its so fast beside my PC3K ISA Lol. It's a bit picky on the chipset but when you find the good one it works really great. I observed on BAD HDD some parts are harder to read then other (it's obvious).

When the chipset is not the good one it slow down and never get faster after.
When you use a supported chipset it's slow down and get as fast as it use to be.

I'm a bit disappointed the topic is about inexpensive imaging solution. In the inexpensive solution I like to use the Linux "dd_rescue" witch is free, witch is not hardware picky and can support anything IDE, SCSI, SATA, ESDI, Flash Memory, floppy, HDD, CD-rom etc.. Image to file or image to an other drive directly the only thing is you have to learn how to type a Linux Command their is a few variant (Different interface, and device specific) since it's open source people customize it for their needs. You can also use it to wipe the disk by overwriting a NULL (/DEV/NULL) Device to the disk. This software can be run from a Floppy it's even easier to use since it's already install in the knoppix boot CD you don't need to configure a Linux system to run it.

"recoverdm" is one of these variant witch as CD-Rom specific feature it can also create a map file of bad sector so let say you first read the media without trying to read bad sector then you load the map and it try to read bad sectors to complete the image. In case of CD-ROM you can try read it from a CD-ROM DRIVE then with a second device with the map trying to read bad sector..

Their is a lot of variant it's yours to discover.

Hope it helps

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Hello Every body,

Just for your information the motherboard I'm using with HDD Duplicator is from a compaq computer
Model: SR1120NX (Can still be found refurbish thru part broker and ebay.)
Motherboard is :
MS-6577 Mine is ver 4.1 maybe other version will work great.

Chipset is: Intel 845GV Chipset

You can have complete MOBO spec:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te ... 0058048#A0


Hope it helps

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