Copy process over hardware failure is endless

[Enrico Weigelt]

* wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to copy the contents of a disk to another. The source disk
> shows ext3 fs problems due to hardware failures, and the copy process
> within mc is endless. Copying from or to a broken disk layer is
> something I always avoided from within mc because of this behaviour.
> 
> In /var/log/messages I'm getting tons of:
> Sep  7 14:48:03 monolith kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
> Sep  7 14:48:32 monolith kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
> Sep  7 14:48:32 monolith kernel: Info fld=0x0

MC most likely can't do anything here. It's an kernel issue.
The driver/block layer tries to get as much as it can. 
You should ask the kernel devs (or maybe docs) how to set smaller
retries/timeouts.


cu
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