Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)

[Jon Grant]

Hello,
Sorry for late response.

Andreas Schwab wrote on 04/07/08 17:05:
> Jon Grant <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > that's interesting, as the error log made it look like it was dd that
> > was looping.
>
> Which error log?

Unfortunately I do not have it. Ubuntu crashed when I inserted the USB 
stick (the Abit board has done it with other distros too).

So I hope you can take my word for it that for each sector it had 
difficultly reading, the log reapeated the read error 40 times. The 
drive was sent back after I recovered what I could, so I couldn't 
generate the log.  I used dd twice on the drive, and the logs both times 
repeated each sector 40 times before moving on to the next one.

Looked something like follows, this is just a mock up:


dd: (warning): /dev/sdb2 (60078127.5k): Input/output error!
dd: (info): ipos:  60078128.0k, opos:  60078128.0k, xferd:  60078128.0k
                *  errs:  51336, errxfer:     25668.0k, succxfer: 
60052460.0k
             +curr.rate:        0kB/s, avg.rate:      141kB/s, 
avg.load:  0.3%
dd: (warning): /dev/sdb2 (60078127.5k): Input/output error!

dd: (info): ipos:  60078128.0k, opos:  60078128.0k, xferd:  60078128.0k
                *  errs:  51336, errxfer:     25668.0k, succxfer: 
60052460.0k
             +curr.rate:        0kB/s, avg.rate:      141kB/s, 
avg.load:  0.3%


{2 repeats, continues like this for another 38 times}

Kind regards, Jon