On Friday 28 December 2012 06:41:02 YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: > I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd > doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb > conv=noerror,sync > dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output error > 6160537+0 records in > 6160536+0 records out > 3154194432 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 209.528 s, 15.1 MB/s > > Only 3.2 GB have been copied... > > Have you any idea on how to force dd to continue after errors?
look at `dmesg` and see if it's reporting errors. if so, consult the feedback Pádraig and Bernhard provided. -mike
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