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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