On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lamar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/30/2014 11:48 AM, Andras Horvath wrote:
>> I've been having an issue for a month or so now that I seem unable to >> track down. >> >> I have an external USB drive for backup. When I start copying from the >> computer to the external disk, it starts to fail sooner or later. Whether at >> a large file or after several small ones, but it fails dropping messages >> like this (taken from dmesg): > As to Debian 6 being able to work with it and SL6 not, that could be a > kernel difference where the Debian kernel is waiting and retrying longer in > the case where the drive is spinning down. You may want to test the latest kernel from kernel.org to see if a newer kernel resolves the issue. You can yum-install it by using 'kernel-ml' [1] from ELRepo. It works fine on SL 6. When you're finished and wish to uninstall it, just run yum remove. Akemi [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
