On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:19:03AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > 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.
I tested the disk by putting it in another computer and running the manufacturer's diagnostic from the ultimate boot CD (www.ultimatebootcd.com) and it was fine. > Other than that, I wish FreeBSD could somehow translate those SMART > commands, so it would work with USB/Firewire enclosures of all sorts. It turned out that my enclosure used a USB/firewire chip with known problems, the Prolific PL3507 which has a problem with large transfers. I've ditched it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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