Error Handling

Error handling attributes

Disk Clone allows user to select 1 of 3 ways to handle Read/Write Errors:

Abort entire disk group processing

This means that if user runs a Batch erase and one of the disks has errors the erase process for ALL the disks in the batch is terminated

Abort only failed disk from group processing

This is the suggested setting. Failed disks return an error and terminate the erase process. But other disks in the batch are not interrupted from the erase operation

Ignore error for disk grouping

Ignores the read/write error and continues erasing wherever is possible on the disk. No active or forth going operations are terminated

Terminate process after number of errors

Sets the error threshold to a certain amount before the disk operation is terminated and deemed unsuccessful

Number of Read/Write attempts

Sets the number of attempts Disk Clone makes to perform an operation when an error is encountered before it stops execution

Ignore preceding results

Errors (if any) on previous steps (i.e. Examination) are ignored and following steps (i.e. Erase, Clone) will be performed. If turned off the errors on previous steps will stop all further actions

Use disk lock

Locks disks from being used by any other applications

Ignore disk lock errors

Errors encountered with Disk Clone not being able to access locked disks are ignored

Ignore read/write errors

Toggle whether errors should appear for read/write errors

Rely upon disk performance

Set a minimum acceptable read/write speed in megabytes per second for disks to flag under-performing drives.

S.M.A.R.T. Diagnostics

S.M.A.R.T. attributes may also be used in error handling. So threshold limits may be set on some or on all of the disks S.M.A.R.T. parameters. This may speed up processing by immediately terminating operations with unusable drives