Re: External hard drive woes
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.
How much are you trying to copy? I've also got an external FW
disk, so I'll try to make my system crash.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
(N.B. - This is hyperbole, not a heartfelt part of my core
beliefs.)
Windows sucks. No, really. Any butt-wipe pseudo-OS that *needs*
kludges like PC-Anywhere or RDP for remote access, and only
allows 1 login at a time shouldn't be allowed to exist, and it's
developers should be shot.
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