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Gordon Henderson wrote:
Something gave up running badblocks, got so far then "no such file or directory...", ddrescue shows on every blockOn Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Dava wrote:yet hdparm gives: dava-laptop dava # sudo hdparm -v /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 2097152/64/32, sectors = 4294967296, start = 04294967296 sectors of 512 bytes is 2TB... So somethings not quite right here.That's the numbers the kernel will use when gauging its size...I'm wondering if it's one of those fake ones - with less real storage than is advertised...However - lets check for bad blocks - badblocks -s -c 256 /dev/sdb and see what happens. I'm suspecting it's not going to like it though. If some sectors are readable, then you might want to try dd_rescue dd_rescue -A /dev/sdb /var/tmp/stick.img Gordon
dd_rescue: (warning): /dev/sdb (49.5k): Input/output error! I think it has had it to be honest. Thanks for the help though Gordon and Viv Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq