dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:03:21AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-(
> 
> This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk to a
> native SCSI device (your drive is ATA).  atacontrol expects to talk to a
> native ATA device, but via adXX, not via umass or any other USB interface.
> 
> I don't know of any software even on Windows (for comparison) that lets
> you get SMART stats off of an ATA drive in a USB enclosure via USB.

Bummer.

> Upon opening the enclosure (and violating the warranty), I found that
> the 2" long ATA33 cable (which was amusing in itself since the device
> claimed to support ATA100/ATA133 speeds) connecting the drive to the
> ATA<->USB backplane had a couple copper wires exposed, and two of the
> wire crimping pins were actually sticking outside of the 40-pin
> connector.

I took the unit apart because I had to check the HD's serial number
anyway. The connectors looked ok. No visible flaws. The drive was
correctly set up as master. It's interesting that the old enclosure
feels hotter then the new one, even though they contain the same type HD.

Unfortunately the HD itself just passed the warranty date. :(

Roland
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