From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 09:24:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA22016A4D0; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from deluge.umist.ac.uk (deluge.umist.ac.uk [130.88.120.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8473A43D41; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:24:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=infidel.fajita.org) by deluge.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B5pdQ-00079u-9L; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:24:16 +0000 Received: from black.fajita.org (black.fajita.org [192.168.0.13]) by infidel.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2NHNw9Q099902; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:23:58 GMT (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by black.fajita.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2NHOJnt064921; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:24:19 GMT (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:24:18 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Message-ID: <20040323172418.GA47065@lewiz.org> References: <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org> <20040316111325.GB742@adelaide.lemis.com> <20040316172526.GB1236@lewiz.org> <20040318025602.GZ58155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319030334.GA1985@lewiz.org> <20040319222738.GQ21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:24:26 -0000 --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:23:11AM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=3Dad3 of= =3Dad1 > > > bs=3D8192 conv=3Dnoerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on detail= s you > > > haven't reported.'' Do these detailed errors help at all? > >=20 > > A little. They tell me that the drive is flaky. I'd expect to see > > the error messages in /var/log/messages, though. >=20 > Right. I've just written a full-blown reply to this message but on the > very last thing I did some looking into dd. After some searching I > found somebody that said: >=20 > ``One must specify conv=3Dnoerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad > sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized'' I re-dd'd my disk yesterday using conv=3Dnoerror,sync and everything seems to work as planned. Vinum starts straight away and I have not managed to re-create the null fqg message. If I come across any problems I'll post them here. Thanks very much, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAYHLCItq0KFQv7T8RAm68AKCubmVW55UypX9qzNa9rM4oOIAJJACg0bPG HoXUk4aOzXx5kjnmXDaB4pY= =CHSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--