Problem with DD deploying img file.

[Jim Canfield]

Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:
>
> I  currently have a problem deploying a new image to  a machine which is
> normally done by using dd. I had a machine disk break on me a week or so
> ago so I ordered a new disk ( exact Make/Model) which arrived today. The
> images sit on our network drive, known as slash.img and boot.img. We have a
> procedure that we follow every time a machine needs a new image and the
> images have been used many times in the past so i know they work fine. The
> commands I am running are below:
>
> dd if=boot.img of=dev/sda1
> dd if=slash.img of=/dev/sda2
>
> When i run the first command it runs with no problems but the second
> command comes up with the error below. Could someone tell me what I can do
> to highlight the problem and fix it as I need to get this machine back up
> and running ASAP.
>
> dd - writing to /dev/sda2: Input/Output error.
>
>   
Have you tried using ddrescue?

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html