On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 12:47:37 -0700 Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Now I'd rather stick with the stock kernel before trying the eSATA transfer. If that fails, I'll go and test what you suggested. Thanks. Andras
