Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:55:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails Message-ID: <20070628185545.GB13456@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070628025331.63bfa84a@localhost> References: <20070625174045.GA31486@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070625224507.da4e62c2.ota@j.email.ne.jp> <20070626060948.GA20203@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070627153221.1a2cce90@localhost> <20070627061206.GA58111@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070627201905.2102ddc4@localhost> <20070627151123.GA71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <46828AB4.9090603@dial.pipex.com> <20070628025331.63bfa84a@localhost>
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--5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:53:31AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 > Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >=20 > > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site,= =20 > > burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. >=20 > good point. these may already be part of the Ultimate boot CD http://www.= ultimatebootcd.com/ - never leave home without it ! ;) =20 An update on how it went; I tested the drive in an old PC with the Western Digital tool from the ultimate boot CD. The diagnostics produced no errors. A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is the culprit. I'm going to buy a new enclosure. Thanks for the help, everybody. Roland --=20 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) --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGhAQxEnfvsMMhpyURAsjIAJ9SF0aPShCgfcM8NFy9Siv7dSa0PwCff5sl JdUfCQ4iqwLft7iRQDuZhnM= =aLPR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs--
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