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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:25:02 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: off topic - disk crash
Message-ID:  <4054410E.3000401@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20040314104717.GA16158@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
References:  <20040311153709.AD00216A4D6@hub.freebsd.org> <20040311174030.GB8190@tikitechnologies.com> <xzpk71qaz93.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040314104717.GA16158@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5")
> Don't know whether this is a 75GXP.

It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after 
this has some kind of problems, no wonder they sold out :)

> I'm getting either these:
> 
> ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)  LBA=30583
> 
> Which don't stop the dd process.
> 
> And these,
> 
> ad2: FAILURE  -  READ_DMA status=51<READY, DSC, ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=9156
> 
> leading to termination.
> 
> Also the transfer rate is terribly slow: (80 KB/s)
> 
> I was able to save 18 MB (of 46 GB) (not much so far)
> 
> Any other suggestions? 

Use the noerror and sync flags to dd, that will get past errors and put 
in NULL sectors for those you cant read. However it will take a looong 
time and probably tear off the sorry rests of your magnetic coating on 
the platters :(

-Søren



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