On 5 Jul 2002, at 15:03, Roberto Safora Romay wrote:

> Any way that you can image four or three IDE drives at a time? I
> mean a hardware-software pair that you can connect one IDE HDD as
> a pattern and three others to be copied, and the final result is 4
> identical HDD respecting the information they contain.
> TIA
> Roberto

  I have seen standalone devices for imaging hard drives; I think
some of them may allow for several simultaneous destination drives.
It seems to me that they were awfully expensive, though -- hard to
justify unless you need to make a LOT of identical drives.

  Symantec's Ghost program, when used over a network, normally uses
"multicasting", implying that a single transmission can be sent to
multiple destination computers.  If you can have the drives already
mounted in the computers they're destined for, that might be a
reasonable solution.

David Gillett

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