From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Subject: Re: I/O errors while dding between 2 SATA drives Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:04:52 +0900 Message-ID: <43DE2B14.7090309@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.199]:8230 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932302AbWA3PFC (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:05:02 -0500 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so1151567nzn for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:05:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: James Lamanna Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org James Lamanna wrote: > I received the following errors while executing a > dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=1M > between 2 500GB SATA Seagate Barracuda drives on 2.6.12 (Gentoo 2005.1 > "Live" CD) > > ata1: command 0x35 timeout stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x21 > ata1: status=0xd1 { Busy } > end request: I/O Error dev sda, sector 51188392 > Buffer I/O Error on device sda, logical block 6398549 > lost page write due to I/O Error on sda > ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 > ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 > ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 > > The message repeats every so often with the sector count increasing by > 8 and logical block count increasing by 1. > > Is it bad hardware? (sda is brand new) > And is the copy hosed? > [CC'ing linux-ide] Hi, James. Please post full dmesg and yeah the copy is probably hosed. dd's exit code will tell you. Do 'echo $$'. -- tejun