random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 26 Feb 2012, at 05:06, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 26 February 2012 00:55:46 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
>> I thought he was creating a "monolithic" device...what was called
>> "dangerously dedicated". No slices at all. Not only are DD volumes
> 
> yes, I remember this term. And Windows machines get confused but they do not damage the media.
> 
>> mountable, they are bootable. It's been years since I created a DD
>> disk as the slight space savings are irrelevant on modern hundreds of
>> gigabyte disks, so I may have forgotten how it works. It might still
>> make sense on a small thumb drive, bootable or not.
> 
> Never break a winning team. The script doing the job works since a long time. This is the simple reason behind.
> 


Ok so since nobody mentioned it, does the problem happen for ALL your media handled in the same fashion, or just the one drive ?

What I'm saying is don't blame the software so readily when it might be hardware.

Get a SMART report on your disk.
Also try with another media.