Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-06-25 at 08:04 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
If I were you, I'd run some SMART tests instead. Also check the SMART error logs. See smartctl. Hmm, not sure if this works over USB.
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org