-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-01-10 at 08:29 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
I have two systems, let's call them 'home' and 'away'. When I buy a music CD, I rip it onto whichever machine is available, and convert it to flac. I keep copies on both machines by rsyncing, so each machine's music collection is a mirror of the other. Both collections are on encrypted partitions. So far, so good.
'Away' plays the music perfectly, whereas 'home' has some corrupted tracks which have small skips and louder pops and crackles in the playback. The errors are reproducible, in that they occur in the same place each time. It makes no difference which end the original ripping took place, whether at 'home' or 'away'.
let me see: - 2 machines - encripted storage ¿type? - rip on any, copied to the other using rsync - some tracks bad on machine "home". - bad file on "home" is bad on "away" if copied via scp Correct? I would try comparing a "bad" file with the same file on the other machine. My guess is that they willbe different, and thus, it would prove that "rsync" botched the job, and worse, it does not detect it.
and:
smartctl --all /dev/sdj
Find out if you have remapped (reallocated) sectors. It is in the list of attributes. If so, a sector could have been remapped while containing data and would explain the problem. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktJ7mUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vh0QCcD3hRWrMqcWFquRedcRYn1T2D xdQAnRdqHsU+sAUd8TnVZ0XC7pjJhIS+ =LoIQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----