David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > My Seagate drives are dropping like flies with less than 1400 hours of run > time. (that's less than 58 days of service!) <snip> > > That's pretty much where I am now. My next thought is to just use dd to copy > the partitions over. I have opensuse on the sda/sdc array (mapper > nvidia_fdaacfde), so the drives I am working with are not mounted anywhere and > should be easy to work with. > > What says the brain trust? Can you think of any way I was screwing up gparted > so it wouldn't even format the copy partitions? What about the dd method? Any > hints or gotchas? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > Ok, I decided on: dd bs=100M conv=notrunc if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdd I'll let you know how it comes out ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
