Hello again, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > So is /dev/log on a SCSI device? Is a write to > > the SCSI device failing? If so what, how and why? > > No, while ssh and postfix were stuck I could even download and install > the Debian strace package which involved writes on at least two > partitions! So what is that message telling us? > > > > Have you tried to use USB1.1 instead of USB2.0? > > > Not possible ... > > Yes it's possible, you just won't be able to do everything... > If there's really no other hint then we would try it... Have you tried enabling USB debugging? I don't know what else to suggest. > > are you using any other backup methods? > We use it on a couple of servers and until now had no problems. Of > course only with Maxtor build-in usb harddrives and NEC chipsets. > Horribly experiences with some other combinations of hardware :-) I see. My experiences have been pretty horrible every time... :( > of course, we get a backup status mail every day :) > and a seperate one with a big fat warning in case of a failure. :):) How often do you see failures? What causes? > > > > Have you run 'fsck' on your root partition recently? > > > On my '/'? No, last time was 2003-09-10. > > I'm a little surprised by that. What's the filesystem type? > It's ext3. But why surprised Because I'm paranoid. Isn't everybody? But ext3 is good, I feel better. > But do you really think that the fs-state of the root partition could be > the cause? No. Maybe it could be an effect. I haven't trashed a SCSI filesystem with USB yet but I've sure trashed a few IDE ones. I'd want to know. :) 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
