From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Dunkel Subject: Re: question about SATA vs (SATA via USB) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:35:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4772BAF5.6090301@t-online.de> References: <47721363.9050601@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.de ([194.25.134.19]:52550 "EHLO mailout06.sul.t-online.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751590AbXLZUzq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:55:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47721363.9050601@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi Tejun, Tejun Heo wrote: > Harri wrote: >> Next I mounted (rw, shame on me) the old SATA disk via USB >> to the PC, and tried to copy the data. But during the copy >> there were some syslog messages about file system corruptions >> on the old disk. I stopped rsync, unmounted the disk, >> and ran fsck, but it was damaged beyond repair. No chance >> to recover any data. > > Hmmm... interesting. That isn't supposed to happen. Do you have kernel > logs saved? > Sorry, but the logs have been lost. The new 500 GB disk had an I/O error and had to be replaced. I doubt that this I/O error was the reason for corrupting the filesystem on the other disk, but there is no way to be sure, afaics. I would suggest to ignore this problem for now. Regards Harri