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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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> The Wednesday 2008-06-25 at 08:04 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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> > If I were you, I'd run some SMART tests instead.  Also check the
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> > error logs.  See smartctl.  Hmm, not sure if this works over USB.
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> I haven't seen any usb HD on which smart is supported :-(
> They use a very cheap chipset, I suppose.

Hmm, the disk itself should be the same though.  According to
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net, there's at least one USB chipset
supported with '-d usbcypress' 

But otherwise it's bad news for USB drives:

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#testinghelp


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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