* wwp <subscr...@free.fr> wrote: > Hello there, > > > I'm trying to copy the contents of a disk to another. The source disk > shows ext3 fs problems due to hardware failures, and the copy process > within mc is endless. Copying from or to a broken disk layer is > something I always avoided from within mc because of this behaviour. > > In /var/log/messages I'm getting tons of: > Sep 7 14:48:03 monolith kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: No additional > sense information > Sep 7 14:48:32 monolith kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : No Sense > [current] > Sep 7 14:48:32 monolith kernel: Info fld=0x0
MC most likely can't do anything here. It's an kernel issue. The driver/block layer tries to get as much as it can. You should ask the kernel devs (or maybe docs) how to set smaller retries/timeouts. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
