[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question

[Fred James]

Kevin E. Ivey wrote:

>Fred James wrote:
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>>Old Dell laptop (circa Pentium 4 Mobility) with two external hard drives 
>>(USB attached) ... been running swimmingly (for a year at least), until ...
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>>This event has happened only twice (Tuesday and today) - lost the USB 
>>hard drives ... message in syslog:
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>>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
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>>... followed by thousands of lines like these ...
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>>May  8 11:53:44 bandaid kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1458647143
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>>Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer in figuring 
>>out what is going on here
>>Regards
>>Fred James
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>Are the drives full?
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>perhaps the output of the logs would give some hints...
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Kevin E. Ivey
The two drives are each about 55% full.  Which logs?
Regards
Fred James