Copy process over hardware failure is endless

[wwp]

Hello Frank, Keith,


On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:42:01 +0200 Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> >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
> 
> Wouldn't it be more secure for your data to save first the whole
> partition/disc with ddrescue or similar, to reduce the stress on the
> dying disc? And after that copying your important data from this
> image? The only reason which could prevent you not to do this could be
> the size of the disc.

Yes that's probably what I'll do. I appreciate your suggestion (and
Keith's) one. Both suggestion will be hard to deploy, as it seems my
disk self-powers down regularly.

Anyway I think I've determined (by killing a locked-down mc instance,
huh) that the system or relevant sub-system was still in a loop of
retries, meaning that mc is probably not culprit here. I presume it
doesn't even has the cpu cycles enough to propose interaction to the
user, allowing to abort.

Thanks to all and sorry for the noise!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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