dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:12:06 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> 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 with USB cases - some great, some dying for  no
reason, some working on and off. I would test the drive itself outside the USB
enclosure (hopefully you have one that can be pulled apart) and see how that
goes. 

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