Yesterday, several times using different ports, cables and eSATA enclosures, I tried using DFSee[1] to clone from a 320G Seagate to a 500G ST31000526SV (SV35 Surveillance series; firmware CV15; refurb acquired 5 weeks ago) Seagate. Each time, progress was horrifically slow, something like 2% in 20 minutes, and if I let it run long enough, forecasting 14+ hours to complete. I've been using DFSee for over a decade. It's far friendlier than dd. Finally I decided to just let it run to completion to see how long it would take. It's still not done. Fdisk (Knoppix 7.4, kernel 3.16.3, util-linux-2.20.1; openSUSE 12.3 & up are on the source HD) reports this to be a 512 byte sector HD, as does the Seagate PDF. Seatools long test gave it an OK. Dmesg reports nothing I recognize as out of the ordinary, but the clone is currently over 15 hours into process and reporting ETA of nearly 7 hours. I've taken smartctl -x reports before and during the clone. They are not encouraging, particularly Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/smart-st3500411sv1.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/smart-st3500411sv3.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/smart-st3500411sv4.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/smart-st3500411sv5.txt I don't think I've ever encountered cloning SATA speed that wasn't at least 10X what this is doing. Ideas? Suggestions? [1] http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/ -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org