dumping large partition to USB drive fails

Ulrich Spoerlein uspoerlein at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 09:26:40 UTC 2007


On Wed, 27.06.2007 at 08:12:06 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI
> error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything.

Please try with atausb. Remove umass/da/scsi from your kernel and add
atausb. Might be worth a try.

Other than that, I wish FreeBSD could somehow translate those SMART
commands, so it would work with USB/Firewire enclosures of all sorts.

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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