Getting error message "Cannot read inode bitmap". Someone able to help?

Getting error message "Cannot read inode bitmap". Someone able to help?

[Manuel Reimer]

Hello,

I tried to restore data from a broken NAS device. This small box 
contained a embedded linux system and two 1TB hard drives.

After some tries, I managed to connect both drives via mdadm and was 
able to mount this raid as XFS.

Now I connected a brand new eSATA drive to this PC and started to copy 
the data (about 700 Gigabytes). Target disk was 1TB, so enough space to 
hold the source data.

With my first try (ext2 on target disk) I got the error "Cannot read 
inode bitmap". The kernel reported this error for the *target* device 
(the brand new SATA hard drive). I did a second try and reformated the 
target drive to ext3 and, again, I got the same error. So I installed 
"smartmontools" into my running live system and checked the drive. The 
new drive has no "reallocated sectors" but several read errors (about 500).

The worst thing about this is, that a diff between source and target 
showed many files differing, so I didn't just get errors, but I also 
have bad data on the target disk. This is a pretty *unstable* disc 
behaviour...

The copy program, I used, was "cp" from busybox.

What should I check to find the reason for this errors? Is it really 
possible that a brand new disc, which doesn't have conspicuous smart 
values, is the reason for this problem? May the eSATA disc enclosure 
(has a small circuit to also offer USB access) be the reason?

The log entries, I could get via dmesg, are available here:
http://pastebin.org/423211

Thank you very much in advance

Yours

Manuel Reimer

Re: Getting error message "Cannot read inode bitmap". Someone able to help?

[Manuel Reimer]

Manuel Reimer wrote:
> With my first try (ext2 on target disk) I got the error "Cannot read
> inode bitmap". The kernel reported this error for the *target* device
> (the brand new SATA hard drive). I did a second try and reformated the
> target drive to ext3 and, again, I got the same error. So I installed
> "smartmontools" into my running live system and checked the drive. The
> new drive has no "reallocated sectors" but several read errors (about 500).

Sorry for the spam (maybe I'm on the wrong ML at all... don't know...) 
but I fixed this on my own. I didn't expect the new disk to be the 
reason for this problem, but after checking for badblocks I got a value 
far over 1000 of bad blocks.

So I'll send this disk back to the vendor to get my money back and get a 
new one...

Nice to know, that Linux was *not* the reason for those errors.

Yours

Manuel