On 10/16/05, Thomas Raschbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > just a quick addition: > > I ran this: > > desktop lordvan # dd if=/dev/discs/disc2/part6 of=/dev/null bs=8k > 1192384+0 records in > 1192384+0 records out > 1209296+0 records in > 1209296+0 records out > 1275725+0 records in > 1275725+0 records out > 1326505+0 records in > 1326505+0 records out > 1790232+0 records in > 1790232+0 records out > 2255571+0 records in > 2255571+0 records out > 2447343+0 records in > 2447343+0 records out > 6220163+1 records in > 6220163+1 records out > > as you see it produced no errors at all so the HDD can be read fine. any > idea what could cause the problem?
IIRC, if there were no errors, dd wouldn't have repeatedly told you what records in/out it'd completed, unless you manually tell it to do so. If you didn't touch it and it's saying this, then dd is skipping over some dysfunctional blocks. Otherwise, then yes, dd can read it fine (although that doesn't say anything about the data's integrity). -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.
