On 9/6/19 7:45 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 06Sep2019 19:34, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
I am going to test the straight pipe today on my USB3 ports
and see if the overhead slows down the dd enough to stop
crashing dd. [...]

"crashing" ?

[...]
Ahh poop!  (Not my "exact" word.)

# dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > DeadStick.FC30.2019-09-06
34489798656 bytes (34 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 404 s, 85.4 MB/s
dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Input/output error
8425692+0 records in
8425692+0 records out
34511634432 bytes (35 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 459.17 s, 75.2 MB/s

That was on my USB 3.1 port.

Not sure this is a problem. How big is /dev/sdb? What do you expect dd to do when it hits the end of the drive?

It is 64 GB.

and I expect a return prompt with a summary and no errors.
It works on my USB2 port.

I am thinking the "85.4 MB/s" is the issue.  Another Samsung
128 GB USB 3.1 stick I am currently testing is running at 32.3 MB/s
(Perhaps someone is fibbing about the transfer speed too?)



Hmm. You have two "32GiB ...copied" lines up there. From the same run?

Ah, no, that is your "status=progress" getting cut in half by the dd error and the in/out report. So that's ok.

dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Input/output error
Is not okay.


So, what's bad about the above?

dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Input/output error



The 128 stick stopped successfully:

# dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > 128GB.Stick.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
65474170880 bytes (65 GB, 61 GiB) copied, 2032 s, 32.2 MB/s^C
15986297+0 records in
15986296+0 records out
65479868416 bytes (65 GB, 61 GiB) copied, 2032.78 s, 32.2 MB/s

And you can see where the 64 gb (dead stick) crashed:

# ls -al
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 51720912896 Sep  6 20:10 128GB.Stick.2019-09-06
-rw-r--r--.  1 tony root  2733066922 Sep  6 19:21 DeadStick.FC30.2019-09-06


Methinks I have a bad stick.  Your take?

Thank you for the help!

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