From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932391AbWAZSVq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:21:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932392AbWAZSVq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:21:46 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.203]:11430 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932391AbWAZSVp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:21:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=qr3DScwjmhDrhyfGqcaajiVXKpa7g0KL09teXxsH0BGd/SelUWY7+uUe0x6tSE5r+1jnCcD0wHWqsU+HZh2j4F6eDdLwmT931OmLSv9LAYpgQVJJySbhRyoZdLL2hStc5FfPcT8q9wUny+uXYax0VhBQKBVV5Hjxa65T/heG/RU= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:21:44 -0800 From: James Lamanna To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: I/O errors while dding between 2 SATA drives MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I received the following errors while executing a dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=1M between 2 500GB SATA Seagate Barracuda drives on 2.6.12 (Gentoo 2005.1 "Live" CD) ata1: command 0x35 timeout stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x21 ata1: status=0xd1 { Busy } end request: I/O Error dev sda, sector 51188392 Buffer I/O Error on device sda, logical block 6398549 lost page write due to I/O Error on sda ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0x9F7 The message repeats every so often with the sector count increasing by 8 and logical block count increasing by 1. Is it bad hardware? (sda is brand new) And is the copy hosed? Thanks. -- James