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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:26:56 +0200
From:      peter.blok@bsd4all.org
To:        Jan Martin Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bad SSD drive - what happens with unreadable data
Message-ID:  <BF748378-E283-44B5-8D19-1A4AA11EAD3E@bsd4all.org>
In-Reply-To: <E2C30D1A-A158-4923-B3C6-090249F004B8@transactionware.com>
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Hi Jan,

Yes, I noticed the “clone” wasn’t growing during the read errors and read the manual page.But I ended up using ddrescue.

Peter

> On 14 Jun 2019, at 11:56, Jan Martin Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You need to add “sync" to get the unreadable areas filled with zeros. Something like "dd conv=sync,noerror bs=4k” is probably good.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jan.
> 
>> On 13 Jun 2019, at 13:02, peter.blok@bsd4all.org wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a bad SSD drive. If I read it with dd and conv=noerror, what happens with the unreadable areas? Does it fill with zeroes, or does the driver still copy what it was able to read?
>> 
>> I’m getting ATA status 51 back, many blocks in a row. Followed by chunks of readable data, followed by unreadable data.
>> 
>> Is there a modepage or something else to tell the drive to pass on the bad data?
>> 
>> Any other ideas?
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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