On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:04 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 12:29 +1300, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > [snip] > > > > The initial copy was done from nautilus. Using cp from CLI gives the > > same message and the relevant dmesg output is: > > > > [48694.930515] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > > [48694.930522] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error > > [48694.930529] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 27 63 c3 98 00 00 > > 08 00 > > [48694.930545] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 660849560 > > > [snip] > > There was a spate of 'fake' USB drives that pretended to be much larger > than they were. >
This one is an old 400GB Seagate HDD with own power source, in a case with Firewire/USB connectivity, currently connected via USB. The message reflects reality, the sector's number is within the overall capacity. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
