On 28 Mar 2015, at 16:14 , Michael wrote:
> So my external 500 GB drive is giving me I/O errors. I'd like some advice,
Easy!
> other than "throw it away”.
Oh. Well. Fine, be that way.
> This is a USB drive. I don't know how to do a low-level format.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=512
This
read error somewhere. But the only thing the kernel tells me is
> Mar 28 11:11:29 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
> Mar 28 11:12:02 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
> Mar 28 11:12:02 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
> Mar 28 11:12:35 --- last message repeated 1
is
Mar 28 11:11:29 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
Mar 28 11:12:02 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 28 11:12:02 keybounceMBP kernel[0]: disk1s2: I/O error.
Mar 28 11:12:35 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
No indication of which block ID, what kind of device status flags, etc. I
