I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD

Post by lloeki » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 6:25 AM UTC

boredzo wrote: post #79

lloeki wrote: post #7

> Tiger’s dd doesn’t have status=progress Maybe sending it SIGINFO (^T in terminal) could help? Dunno if it's supported as far back as Tiger's. (BSD thing, it's SIGUSR1 on GNU dd / Linux, the usability difference is that on darwin the terminal can conveniently send SIGINFO via ^T)

I think it is, but it does print an overall speed estimate at the end anyway. It's just not as conveniently formatted as `status=progress`, which gives you MB/sec (or GB/sec if appropriate), so you gotta do math to it. Here's what the output at the end or from SIGINFO looks like (this is running on my Mac mini and copying from /dev/zero to /dev/null): ``` 148908277760 bytes transferred in 6.917856 secs (21525206330 b…

> but it does print an overall speed estimate at the end anyway

Oh yeah, my point is that if there's no `status=progress` support or if someone forgot to add it then in-flight progress and speed can be displayed in a pinch, and that feature is not well known.

"Every second" is a `while sleep 1` + `kill -INFO` loop away.

A typical full output of it is:

    load: 2.91  cmd: dd 82396 running 0.02u 2.03s
    87770+0 records in
    87770+0 records out
    92033515520 bytes transferred in 2.149378 secs (42818673830 bytes/sec)

So if one uses `bs=1m` (which I frequently do, but always forget about status=progress) then records in/out will be in MiB.

Post by amatecha » Thu, Apr 04, 2024, 11:53 PM UTC

WoodenChair wrote: post #80

amatecha wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow nice, I would be interested in one of those (preferably the 1.33) if you’d at all be willing to sell directly (and dependent on asking price). I’m in Vancouver BC, Canada.

Sorry, I would've but it's already on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126406855301 That one I unfortunately broke the plastic on while upgrading (pictures of that on eBay too). The 1.25 Ghz one (1.25 Ghz G4, 120 GB Kingston SSD, 1 GB RAM, new clock battery) which is intact I have not listed yet. Feel free to contact me through X, email, etc. which you can find in my hacker news profile if you want to make an offer to…

Awesome, thanks for getting back to me. I just sent an email! :)

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