Re: External hard drive woes
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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...
Hardware problem? Bad HDD?
Or heat? Your external enclosure might not be dissipating heat
effectively.
Dodgy chipset?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
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