Re: dd limit???

[Robert Citek <robert.citek@gmail.com>]

What OS, distro, version, and kernel version are you seeing this with?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473017

Also, what's the full command you are running?

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> Four times I've tried to use a Coolmax IDE-to-USB2 adapter to dd a
> binary image of /dev/sda2 to a bare-metal backup image file on my
> server. Every time the process stalls at 104,329,363,456 bytes (97.2G --
> it's a 120G Seagate Momentus 5400.2). I can't kill the dd process. I
> can't even warm boot the server. Have to hit the hard reset to complete
> shutdown.
>
> Once it stalls, /var/log/messages keeps repeating:
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> Jun  7 20:37:05 lion kernel:
> Jun  7 20:37:08 lion kernel: sdc: Current: sense key: No Sense
> Jun  7 20:37:08 lion kernel:     Add. Sense: No additional sense
> information
>
> dmesg shows similar status:
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> sdc: Current: sense key: No Sense
>    Add. Sense: No additional sense information
>
> Before pulling the disk and connectiving to the Coolmax, I had to boot
> to rescue mode with an F13 installation disk to run e2fsck against that
> second partition to make sure it was OK. No problems reported.
>
> Am I running into some kind of numeric limit with dd?
>
> --Doc Savage
>  Fairview Heights, IL
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