On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
To: mc@gnome.org
From: Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de>
Subject: Re: Copy process over hardware failure is endless
* 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.
On Fedora Linux I had some really strange error messages
when trying to copy files from my hard drive to a USB flash drive.
I identified the errors as being due to the fact that the
USB was automounted by the kernel.
I think this was due to the flash drive being formated as
FAT32, which caused it to be automounted.
I reformatted the USB stick as an extended partition, with
an ext3 logical partition inside that.
It did not get automounted by the kernel. I mounted the USB
flash drive by hand and the errors went away.
HTH
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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