[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question
Kevin E. Ivey
ik04 at isot.com
Thu May 8 20:51:23 CDT 2008
Fred James wrote:
> All
> Old Dell laptop (circa Pentium 4 Mobility) with two external hard drives
> (USB attached) ... been running swimmingly (for a year at least), until ...
>
> This event has happened only twice (Tuesday and today) - lost the USB
> hard drives ... message in syslog:
>
> May 8 11:53:44 bandaid kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
> May 8 11:53:44 bandaid kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
>
> ... followed by thousands of lines like these ...
>
> May 8 11:53:44 bandaid kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1458647143
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer in figuring
> out what is going on here
> Regards
> Fred James
Are the drives full?
perhaps the output of the logs would give some hints...
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