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=ad3 of=ad1 > > > bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you > > > haven't reported.'' Do these detailed errors help at all? > > > > A little. They tell me that the drive is flaky. I'd expect to see > > the error messages in /var/log/messages, though. > > 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: > > ``One must specify conv=noerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad > sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized''
I re-dd'd my disk yesterday using conv=noerror,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. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |-
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