Re: /bin/dd fails with big disks containing bad sectors

2007-01-05 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
there is a tool in the tools directory (i forget the name) that is specifically for reading bad disks.. The utility is named 'recoverdisk'. -- Eygene ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

/bin/dd fails with big disks containing bad sectors

2007-01-04 Thread James Risner
Hello, I filed this PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/107443) and it was suggested I bring the issue to this list. If you have a defective disk larger than 2 gb with many bad sectors and attempt to use dd under FreeBSD to duplicate the disk, the operation will fail

Re: /bin/dd fails with big disks containing bad sectors

2007-01-04 Thread Julian Elischer
James Risner wrote: Hello, I filed this PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/107443) and it was suggested I bring the issue to this list. If you have a defective disk larger than 2 gb with many bad sectors and attempt to use dd under FreeBSD to duplicate the disk, the