dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[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 <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.

Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-(
 
> 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. 

These ones are relatively easy to disassemble, luckily. I have two
enclosures of the same brand, but the older (malfunctioning) one has
both USB 2 and firewire connections, while the newer one just has a USB 2
connection. See http://www.conceptronic.nl/site/desktopdefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=200&Cat=60&grp=6010&ar=450&Prod_ID=1393&Prod=CHD3UL

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?

Roland
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