kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd
Greg Lane
greg.lane at internode.on.net
Mon Jun 12 11:37:30 UTC 2006
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:16:28AM +0200, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> >Advice please?!?
>
> Maybe you can try /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup which can skip read errors.
> I used cpdup few years ago on HDD with bad sectors with success - lose
> only few unreadable files from the middle of disk.
I am installing that right now and will give it a try in the morning
when I am sitting next to it. I want to keep the machine alive
overnight while I copy some other stuff over the network to another
machine, since I may take this opportunity (replacing the disk) to upgrade
to 6-stable.
Thanks,
Greg
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