Replacing a failing HD
Gayn Winters
gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com
Tue Oct 18 19:42:26 PDT 2005
> > Craig Deal wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>>Hope it's ok to continue this thread, but can you
> explain in more
> > >>>detail how to use dd to copy a HD. I read "man dd" and was
> > >>
> > >>unable to
> > >>
> > >>>figure out how this is done.
> > >>>
> > >>>Thanks,
> > >>>Craig
> > >>>
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> > >>This is what I have done in the past.
> > >>
> > >>dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=8192b
> > >>
> > >>where da0 is the disk you want to copy and da1 is the new,
> > blank disk.
> > >>I should also mention that it is wise to do this in single
> > user mode.
> > >>I actually have read this somewhere and understand the
> point of it,
> > >>but I must also say that I have done it both ways and they
> > have both
> > >>worked.
> > >>YMMV I would have to say it is all dependant and what you have
> > >>running.
> > >>
> > >>I have done this too many times to count and it is very easy.
> > >>
> > >>peace,
> > >>Bob
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried this and got the following error:
> > >
> > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> > > error=40<UNCORRECTABLE>
> > > LBA=8387712
A couple ideas for dd:
Have you tried bs=512b ?
How about conv=noerror ?
-gayn
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