Hi,

I too would like to say thanks for posting this info. I had been planning to carry out the procedure for several weeks when the drive I was planning to replace started to die this morning.

Fortunately the drive problems appear to be heat related, so I was able to get some error-free operation from it after freezing it and carefully wrapping it in an ice-pack.

I then began the procedure. I made the mistake of re-writing my own version of drivecopy.sh based on a printout of this page. Because I was unfamiliar with the dump command, and because of the font in the printout, I didn't have enough spaces (and therefore not enough arguments). After checking the man page for dump and the downloadable drivecopy.sh script, I was able to get it to work. It was a little bit of stress I could have done without though.

Once again, thanks for this useful information.