Thanks guys. Well, first of all, it's been years since I last installed Windows on one of my computers (2003 maybe?). The thing was that I was excited about btrfs and I had used it since it was on the partition manager on the Ubuntu installer. I hadn't had any problems with btrfs on my computers until this. Then I discovered there was no fsck :( I'll try what you told me. Thanks!!! 2011/3/13 Jérôme Poulin <jeromepoulin@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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
