On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jérôme Poulin wrote: > > Never plug a defective drive on USB if it is the source .. else > > defective sectors get transferred as good filled with random stuff > > Interesting! Which USB chipset(s?) have you seen do this? > Those I tried and confirmed not working are CablesToGo: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=941&sku=30504 StarTech: http://us.startech.com/product/USB2SATAIDE-USB-20-to-IDE-or-SATA-Adapter-Cable I don't have them handy but I can confirm you the chipset if you'd like. As a sidenote USB converters don't have low level access to the disk so it also makes smartctl and stuff not working at all. I was not able to find any USB converter which was working correctly using ddrescue and a defective disk yet. > > //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
