From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 16:23:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813DB16A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from astro.systems.pipex.net (astro.systems.pipex.net [62.241.163.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4A313C44B for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [192.168.23.2] (62-31-10-181.cable.ubr05.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.10.181]) by astro.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1569EE0006E3; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <46828AB4.9090603@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith 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> <20070627201905.2102ddc4@localhost> <20070627151123.GA71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070627151123.GA71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:23:31 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: >I'll disassemble the malfunctioning drive, put it in an old PC and run >smartctl on it. Are there any other tests that might be worthwhile? > > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. If you are seriously dubious about the disk then run SMART long test. The smartctl man page has the details. But no manufacturer ever wants to accept a return unless their own diagnostics fail :-( --Alex