[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question

[Fred James]

Robert Citek wrote:

>Your hard drive is failing.  Time to get a new one.
>
>Regards,
>- Robert
>
>On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> 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
>>    
>>
Robert Citek
Remembering that this is two separate USB hard drives dropping off 
simultaneously on both dates, I ask:  What are the odds?
Regards
Fred James