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Error halted execution
SD has been running great. Over the weekend, I was using my PB to test another external FW drive that was giving me grief on another workstation. Since then, my nightly SD smart updates have failed with this log:
|07:43:30 AM|Error| ditto: /Volumes/Big D/usr/X11R6/bin/.BC.u6b5vd: Invalid argument [***] Tuesday, September 06, 2005 08:18:30 AM America/Chicago |08:18:31 AM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 74, path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.3.9 (7W98) |08:18:31 AM|Info| Source Drive: /, name: Ginger's HD, device: /dev/disk0s10 type: hfs, OS: 10.3.9 (7W98), capacity: 74.43 GB, used: 32.96 GB, directories: 63552, files: 370758 |08:18:31 AM|Info| Target Drive: /Volumes/Big D, name: Big D, device: /dev/disk1s10 type: hfs, OS: N/A, capacity: 0.00 GB, used: 0.00 GB, directories: 0, files: 0 |08:18:31 AM|Info| Copy Mode : Smart Update |08:18:31 AM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset |08:18:31 AM|Info| Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist |08:18:31 AM|Info| PHASE: Volume Preparation |08:18:31 AM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions |08:18:31 AM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Ginger's HD |08:18:31 AM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ... |08:18:31 AM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Ginger's HD |08:18:32 AM|Info| Permissions on '/' are enabled. |08:18:32 AM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Big D |08:18:32 AM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ... |08:18:32 AM|Error| vsdbutil: Couldn't get volume information for '/Volumes/Big D': Device not configured What might have happened? |
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Well, that looks to me like the device is failing whenever it's refreshed -- when you see "Device not configured", it means that the "mount point" -- the place the system puts the 'virtual folder' that represents the drive -- isn't responding to commands given to it.
What kind of drive is this?
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I ran DiskUtility's repair and DiskWarrior, but still getting the failure.
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Capacity: 74.53 GB Manufacturer: GVP OXFW911PI001Rev0.2 102302 Model: Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: Yes BSD Name: disk5 OS9 Drivers: Yes Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed Unit Spec Id: 24734 Firmware Revision: Unit Software Version: 10483 Big D: Capacity: 54.99 GB Available: 24.26 GB Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk5s10 Mount Point: /Volumes/Big D 1 little d: Capacity: 19.29 GB Available: 3.16 GB Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk5s12 Mount Point: /Volumes/little d |
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OK, from this I can see that the drive *has* failed before -- you can see that it's now mounted at "Big D 1" rather than "Big D".
To clean up the mount points, restart the machine. Then, give the backup another shot -- but, before you do, check the manufacturer to see if there's a firmware update available for the drive. You might also want to consider using Disk Utility to erase *AND ZERO* the data and free space, to ensure that all bad sectors are remapped.
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After a restart, SD! performed a successful automatic execution last night. The mount point shows Big D now. IYO, should I be concerned with this drive or was this just a bad mounting situation?
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It's very hard to say, unfortunately: the fact that it completed a successful backup is a good thing... the fact that it's failed before isn't. Certainly, the backup is likely good. I'd keep an eye on it -- if you notice it changing its mount point again, or if your backups fail, I'd swap that puppy out for a different one (likely a different case).
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