On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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. I've tried both, but currently using firewire with it. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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