From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mqtco-0008DP-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:05:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44E25E0944; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08356E0944 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so2002393ewy.14 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:03:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ya3VTnzN0/DoXJdksu9KhKwdaL2p9r3zuaMDDPtLFQs=; b=V2WVnai8WrmTTejGNHfm5Y7YaywY6HmZGa5K0ARHjXFUixQrBdMGjl+AtOQ3etY0gT rP9mQphXgVYSBWoPaT0Wl6nX8PPhwsoi26MpO8UzmA+UoHmMMArvI8tA43f0Q/H5hhy9 LaYsZgoFjke0WFCM2pt7UrLNeVO7zBJ+KXYK8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=fCCoFw9s8otkz6fPStBb0t+6cF4mfUj1ize9vWRx6FuPUD4G3ADuFcq27YOFA+/9xn o/zkGmo9GW4oGUgGFGdcz1fFRyq+KF2qu25QMoWIZTgAHsyHelUM0fWjNWZIQci32Pja GOSCcx/6CiErGaVP9+y+2dRfbiYcJlVq4sPGA= Received: by 10.211.130.15 with SMTP id h15mr152532ebn.82.1253818990528; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm44839eyg.8.2009.09.24.12.03.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:03:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:02:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <5bdc1c8b0909191521j72388919w35e54b577b55ae60@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909211439i5bffeea8kefb5166c4e213a5e@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909221320n76280378q9d472965e649c406@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0909221320n76280378q9d472965e649c406@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17182443.VcXj92pCWP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909242003.07587.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 02e0beb4-3e16-4e02-9595-0214bdf1eb47 X-Archives-Hash: aa890c6281607e26d1289eca3cb622ad --nextPart17182443.VcXj92pCWP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > What's with Linux support of external drives? Is it just not reliable > enough to depend on? This was not a drive failure but just a bunch of > sense code message problems and everything quit. I probably could have > spent time removing drivers, etc, and then restarting it but I just > rebooted and everything came back. > > I used to use this drive for weeks at a time on one of my Windows > boxes. No problems at that time so I have no strong reason to suspect > the drive when this is the second drive issue in a few days wit this > system. > > I wonder how I determine if it's a drive problem or a kernel/driver > problem? I wonder if you have a memory problem with that box? I don't know what err= ors=20 you've been getting in the logs, but it is a thought when the common=20 denominator is the box. Have you tried running memtest86+ overnight to see= =20 what gives? Another reason might be the physical location. If the drives in question a= re=20 submitted to physical vibration (e.g. next to a door; staircase, etc) then= =20 the failures could be due to mechanical reasons. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart17182443.VcXj92pCWP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkq7wmsACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYGEACeIKh1L2EpqoH/2P8Pz8B8e7DT dLMAoNBYgzITMgWIrBzChhvJwHjPp0/c =2TQE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17182443.VcXj92pCWP--