[CentOS] USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > I'm backing up to a NTFS partition on an external USB drive with dump. I'm > seeing failures in /var/log/messages reading sector 0xFFFFFFF that cause the > verify pass to fail. Are there any known problems in the USB driver? > > Kernel via uname -a: > > Linux segw2.mpa.lan 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 13:49:24 EDT 2008 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > Message reported. (Note the number 268435455, which is 0xFFFFFFF, and occurs > every time I see this happen. You are backing up to NTFS on Linux? The NTFS file system specification is a trade secret last I checked.. Anytime I see an error where the number is binary all ones I suspect a magic number... and worry. How was the disk partitioned? How was this partition formatted? Was the filesystem converted from old to new ntfs format? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134.aspx -- NiftyCluster T o m M i t c h e l l
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