Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:19:03AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > On Wed, 27.06.2007 at 08:12:06 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > > error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything. > > Please try w

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-07-01 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Wed, 27.06.2007 at 08:12:06 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything. Please try with atausb. Remove umass/da/scsi from your kernel and add atausb. Might be w

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Paul Mather
On 28 Jun 2007, at 9:06 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclos

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, > > the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is > > the culprit. I'

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, > the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is > the culprit. I'm going to buy a new enclosure. Can you provide these details (forward w

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:53:31AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 > Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, > > burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. > > good point. these may already

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 28 June 2007 01:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( > > This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk > to a native SCSI device (your drive is ATA). atacontrol expe

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:03:21AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( > > This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk to a > native SCSI device (your drive is ATA). atac

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, > burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. good point. these may already be part of the Ultimate boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ - never leave

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:03:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upon opening the enclosure (and violating the warranty), I found that > the 2" long ATA33 cable (which was amusing in itself since the device > claimed to support ATA100/ATA133 speeds) connecting the drive to the > ATA

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Roland Smith wrote: I'll disassemble the malfunctioning drive, put it in an old PC and run smartctl on it. Are there any other tests that might be worthwhile? Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. If you are seriously d

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk to a native SCSI device (your drive is ATA). atacontrol expects to talk to a native ATA device, but via adXX, not via umass

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:19:05PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:12:06 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > > error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anyth

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:12:06 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI > error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything. possibly because of the USB enclosure. I've had very mixed results w

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:32:21PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > > > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. > > > > > > I've being

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. > > > > I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre, > > too. I never ha

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. > > I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre, > too. I never had problems with dump/restore. > > My disk also failed recently with very similer mess

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output. I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre, too. I never had problems with dump/restore. My disk also failed recently with very similer messages. Hiro On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:40:45 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTE

dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
Some background; I'm using a 160GB USB harddisk to write dumps to. This disk is encrypted with GEOM_ELI; umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 23847