Hi, I can't make any sense out of that error - other than "broken disk". dmesg output would of course help here.
of course you can always copy to a different local disk (wd2?), assuming the target disk is empty / can be erased, and that disk access itself works at all... - Hubert Am 18.02.2014 um 10:44 schrieb Colin Ager: > I am trying to use g4u 2.5 to clone a sata drive. On an older machine > with ide disks it has no difficulty finding the disks but with the newer > machine the disk I want to clone as wd0 is detected plus a second disk > wd1 as shown by dmesg, but running the disks command gives a repeating > error message that it is having problems detecting the partitions. > > "wd0d device fault reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0),retrying" > > If I try the partition check on this disk I get a similar response, but > if I try partition check on wd1 it works correctly. Both disks are sata > types but wd0 has logical volumes on it, while wd1 just has normal > partitions. > > Is it safe to do a copydisk operation in these circumstances to a third > sata disk that I havn't yet tried in place of wd1. > > wd0 has Fedora16 32b on it while wd1 has win7 64. > > Back in 2006 I used g4u 2.2 to clone a disk and sent a donation to you! > > Cheers Colin Ager Norfolk UK > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > g4u-help mailing list > g4u-help@feyrer.de > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
