Re: External hard drive woes
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2 or
> Firewire. The problem is, randomly while running faubackup backup at night
> via cron, the system locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on
> because it's too long and USB keyboards stop working after panic. No output
> to system logs. Running manually causes the hard drive to lock up the system
> about 2 out of 3 times. Is there a way to get this undesired behavior to
> stop, short of going without any backup?
Is the HDD attached via USB or Firewire? I'm guessing USB2, but
want to clarify.
Have you tried Firewire? I've never had troubles with it.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
All of the "reporting" about Laci Peterson & Michael Jackson
reminds me of the Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry": "Can we do the
operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the
newsroom got a running bet. Get the widow on the set, we need
dirty laundry."
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