Tim wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:49:46 Damian Brasher wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>>>> mit@titan:~$
>>>>> rsync -av --exclude=/mnt/sdb1/zunk/ --delete --ignore-errors
>>>>> --log-file=/mnt/sdb1/rsync_log /mnt/sdb1/ /mnt/sdc1/backups/
>>> mit@titan:~$ cat /proc/mounts
>>> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
>>> /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
>>> tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
>>> proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>>> sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>>> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>>> /dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
>>> tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
>>> none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
>>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
>>> fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
>>> binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
>>> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 vfat
>>> rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,ioc
>>> harset=iso8859-1 0 0
>>> /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev,data=ordered 0 0
>> Further to me previous post, I see that your sender is the vfat drive so
>> size is not a factor - however I'd follow on from Andy's comments that you
>> do need to check the state of sdc1 thoroughly.
>>
>> Tim Wrote:
>>> Well I started Hugo command at about 7-00pm last night, its is still
>>> running now (4-24am, yes its early), does it normally takes this long or
>> do >we assume the disk is dead (its a 500gb disk)??
>>
>> You may have to wait for the command to finish - the disk could be bad,
>> but there might be a problem with your disk controller, cable or cable
>> configuration. Go through all the basic checks then use another
>> motherboard if necessary to compare. Perhaps the disk was not properly
>> formatted or the partition was bad.
>>
>> --
>> Damian L Brasher
>> http://www.diap.org.uk
>
>
> Well the command finished, took about 48 hours to complete, there was no
> output when it finished. So I deleted the existing partition, then re
> partitioned again and tried to format, results was it formatted 7gb out of
> 468gb formatted and then said it had completed. It is currently hooked up to
> a windows box (to prove its not the PC) and its not fairing very well.
>
> I am going to contact Seagate (which is another reason I hooked it up to
> windows, they don't list Linux as a supported OS) and see what they say as it
> is under a year old.
You could run the Seagate tools utility[1] from CD or floppy -- if that
comes up with an error code, it should convince Seagate to replace the
drive under warranty.
[1]
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
