Re: External hard drive woes
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> / (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache directories). Looking
> at about 75 GB
My old 60GB Maxtor has about 45GB free, so I'm filling it up to
see if it pukes. Will report back with my finding.
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