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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:19:05 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails
Message-ID:  <20070627201905.2102ddc4@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20070627061206.GA58111@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20070625174045.GA31486@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070625224507.da4e62c2.ota@j.email.ne.jp> <20070626060948.GA20203@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070627153221.1a2cce90@localhost> <20070627061206.GA58111@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:12:06 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI
> error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything.

possibly because of the USB enclosure.

 I've had very mixed results with USB cases - some great, some dying for  no
reason, some working on and off. I would test the drive itself outside the USB
enclosure (hopefully you have one that can be pulled apart) and see how that
goes. 

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