On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, root wrote:

| I have a Lindy usb external IDE enclosure (usb 2.0 version) with a Matrox

or Maxtor ?

| 40 GB hard disk (7200 rpm) in it.
|
| Q1: should the disk be master/slave both ?

Which is it set to now?  I would guess Master.

| However, when I try to do a LARGE cp (many files, and some large ones),
| I get a lot of errors writing to the USB drive, and even some disk full
| (when it is not) errors.
|
| Then running fschk, throws up loads of problems with inodes, i_blocks,...
|
| Q2: any one have any ideas ?

No, but there have been a few similar reports involving Very Large
files.

Which USB host controller driver (hcd) are you using?
(like uhci, usb-uhci, usb-ohci, ehci)

and what kernel version?

| NB. currently checking the disk for bad blocks - none yet, it will be
| finished in the morning.
|
| I'm going to try copying all files through a shell script (using find *), to
| see if having a little delay between each file copy helps ?
|
| Q3: how should I really ensure that all the buffers are flushed to the
| drive before I remove it ? I don't think umount is enough. Is adding a
| sync enough ?

Either one should be sufficient .. in my experiences.

-- 
~Randy



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