[CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

Mon Sep 8 19:12:35 UTC 2008
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

<snip>
>> More than likely it is a problem with the Linux reverse engineered
>> support for a Windows proprietary file system. Why back up to NTFS?
> 
> Originally I was backing up across the LAN to the drive attached to my 
> XP workstation.
That would isolate the error if it was caused by the NTFS driver. I would use 
a linux supported filesystem unless you *need* to be able to look at these 
dump files from a windows workstation. Also see if the Manu. has a test 
program to verify the drives.
Sometimes a few of the PATA to USB interfaces do some strange things to I/O 
streams. I have a drive that would consistently lock my old XP workstations 
USB interfaces, but works fine on the new one.

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