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5 Command Description

This chapter provides a brief description of each of the commands supported by

the SuperDuper unit. Please refer to the Button Interface and Serial Interface

chapters of this document for detailed instructions on how to execute each of the

commands. Refer to the Troubleshooting chapter for information relating to a

failure.

5.1 System Test Command

This command is designed to verify that each of the the drives are connected

properly. The test scheduled by this command simply reads a fixed number of

sectors from the each of the target drives and discards the data.

Note: This test is non-destructive as no data is written to any of the drives.

5.2 Clone Drive Command

This command is used to duplicate the source drive to each of the target drives

installed. Clone performs a sector-by-sector copy from the source drive to each

of the target drives, which will result in one or more exact copies of the source

drive. However, each of the target drives must have a capacity which is either

equal to or greater than the capacity of the source drive itself. If the size of any

target drive is less than the size of the source drive, a failure message will be

displayed and the clone operation will terminate prematurely.

Optionally, this command can perform a verify operation after the clone operation

has finished. The verify operation ensures that all of the data contained on the

source drive was copied to each of the target drives successfully.

If a target drive is larger than the source drive, a portion of the target drive may

not be usable. In this case, the unused sectors of the larger target drive are

automatically wiped after the clone operation has completed.

The processing of either a Host Protected Area (HPA) or a Device Configuration

Overlay (DCO) is automatically handled by the SuperDuper Hard Drive

Duplicating Unit. If either a HPA or DCO exists on any of the target drives, it will

automatically be removed during the processing of the Clone operation.

However, if either a HPA or DCO exists on the source drive, the data contained

in the protected area of the source drive will be copied to each of the target

drives and the same HPA or DCO will be configured on each of the target drives

as well.