Re: External hard drive woes
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > / (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.
>
> That might not be necessary. I just managed to get some kernel output
> trying another backup with some different module options. I also did a
[snip]
OK, I just twice wrote 40.7GiB to an external FW drive, with no
errors.
The FW controller is built-in to my mobo's KM800 chipset.
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