[wplug] Should this be a concern? (var/log/messages snippet)

[Mike]

Hrm, the version of dd that came on my rescue disk (based on gentoo)
didn't seem to like the bs argument.

Trying without it..

-mike


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:52:11 -0400, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:29:15 -0400
> 
> 
> Mike <techmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >dev 3:03 (hda) is /dev/hda3, if you are interested, since /dev/hda3 has
> > >a major and minor number of 3.  Are you seeing this error on any other
> > >devices?
> >
> > It's actually the only drive in this machine, I'm pretty certain it's
> > the drive considering it's a circa 1995~ 1gb drive..  :(
> >
> >
> > > You might want to run:
> > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=notrunc,noerror
> > > So it skips over the bad sectors without aborting the dd.
> >
> > Will have to try that!
> 
> You might also want to add a byte size:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1m conv=notrunc,noerror  :)
> 
> --
> Tom Rhodes
>