Re: badblocks

2021-07-10 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-07 19:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The error is indeed quite suspicious and I'd be weary of making any permanent changes to the drive, unless it's 100% reproducible with a known good connection (preferably pure SATA). I got another USB/SATA adapter and badblocks reports no problems. m

Re: badblocks

2021-07-08 Thread Anssi Saari
Cindy Sue Causey writes: > One caveat is that the "dual" docking stations that have the clone > ability may be easy to trigger into an irreversible clone that > destroys data on the second hard drive. I'd seen someone complain > about that in their product review. I suppose. I also have one of t

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a 500Gb [...] > Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter > thing ? In my experience, USB<->SATA adapters are not super-reliable (cheap or not), the main problem stemming from power delivery, so you mig

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/7/21, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-07 18:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a >>> 500Gb >> [...] >>> Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter >>> thing ? >> >> In my experience, USB<->SATA adapters are

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 iul 21, 13:30:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a 500Gb > [...] > > Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter > > thing ? > > In my experience, USB<->SATA adapters are not super-reliable (cheap or >

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread mick crane
On 2021-07-07 18:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a 500Gb [...] Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter thing ? In my experience, USB<->SATA adapters are not super-reliable (cheap or not), the main proble

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 07.07.2021 21:19, mick crane wrote: hello, I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a 500Gb drive from redundant PC that I'd already got what I wanted from. Bullseye Xfce tried to auto mount it but baulked over one directory. I mounted partition OK in terminal emulat

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:19:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: > Ran badblocks on partition which reported > "488251288 bad blocks found" > which seems excessive. > Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter > thing ? Yeah, that sounds fishy. I'd run "fdisk -l" on the device fi

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-19 Thread Towncat
On jan. 18, 21:40, Towncat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I did a > > > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > > Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? > > Wel

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-18 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I did a > > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:14:13AM -0800, Towncat wrote: > On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: > > > > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > > > > where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running fo

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:40:36AM -0800, Towncat wrote: > > I did a > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for > approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed > to be so slow, or is there

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/08 15:29, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did a >> >> /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? > >> where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for >>

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so sl

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: > > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > > where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for > > approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really s

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Du