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On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: |
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> Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn |
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> something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean |
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> it will be a long term solution. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Your repeated dd action probably relocated some bad blocks. |
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I would also run a long test overnight to see where and how it fails. I |
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recently had a drive which went sideways on me. Running dd was successful in |
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relocating some problematic sectors. However, repeating the smart tests |
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revealed that more and more sectors were going bad. I recall a warning that a |
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catastrophic drive failure was imminent, when reading the output of 'smartctl |
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-a'. |
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Instead of dd'ing the whole drive, just dd the suspect sector and repeat the |
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smart tests to see how things move around. I concur with other posters that |
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this drive should only be used for experimentation, rather than production or |
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back ups. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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