Re: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive
On 2015-03-12, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is that Iomega USB drive healthy?
>
> Do you mean "was it healthy before this incident"
> or are you expressing concern for its health since
> being disconnected.
I meant the former, though I'm sure you know more about
everything than I do.
> Yes, I'd certainly think the latter, and fsck/chkdsk it.
Why not? How about those smartmon thingies?
>> > I haven't noticed any other issues with it, and I do scan
>> > /var/log/syslog for warning and error messages. That said, the drive
>> > *is* 5 years old, and I'd been planning to replace it this year just
>> > based on its age. Maybe I should do that sooner rather than later.
>>
>> I think you got some error messages (the ones you showed us).
>
> It might help if you'd quote the lines you're worried about, rather
> than just referring us all back to a long list of diagnostics.
<snip> Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 39027202
<snip> lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
<snip> JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for sdb1-8.
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