Gotcha
Well - here's what I did (it's now ada6 after rebooting, config):
Code:
gpart delete -i 1 ada6
gpart destroy ada6
gpart create -s gpt ada6
gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -b 1M ada6
newfs ada6p1
Just for kicks, I did a
fsck - but no errors
I then proceeded to do the same rsync. After 01:58:51 (~2 hours), it had only reached up to
linux-2.6.31/arch/arm/mach-realview/core.c - still in the very first 'root' directory.
I've also spotted that when doing the gpart/umount/newfs/etc. under this disk, it takes significantly longer than the wd black drive did - maybe 5-6x as long. Most noticeable was the newfs - parts of it near the middle raced through, but the majority of the others suffered a delay.
Sometimes even doing an
ls or
rm -rf hung; in
rm's instance,
top showed it just sitting in the
biowr state for about 4 minutes.
All I can assume is that the disk is therefore faulty