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Re: External hard drive woes



On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:01, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Well, it locks up whether it's on USB2.0 or FW somewhat randomly...

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