[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-01-06, Dale wrote: > Finally got around to rebooting.  It was a experience for sure.  X > wouldn't come up, the plasma thingy doing its thing.  Jeepers.  No > wonder I hate rebooting. I try to remember to reboot all of my machines once a month or so when I've got some spare time (especia

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-01-02 14:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Device Model: ST8000AS0003-2HH188 > > > > > > I recall reading about SMR but can't recall the details of what it is. > > > far as I know, this is just a basic 8TB drive. > > > > This is a

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-02 14:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Device Model: ST8000AS0003-2HH188 > > > > I recall reading about SMR but can't recall the details of what it is. > > far as I know, this is just a basic 8TB drive. > > This is an SMR drive. You should DEFINITELY read up on what they are. How do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-03 Thread Mick
On Friday, 3 January 2020 01:37:49 GMT Dale wrote: > I'll try to reboot the new kernel in a bit. It's building at the > moment. Thanks for posting about this. I did not see it in other > replies. I thought it might be in Rich's but didn't see it. The extra > nudge was helpful. > > Dale > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:48:03 GMT Dale wrote: >> Ian Zimmerman wrote: >>> On 2020-01-01 18:09, Dale wrote: As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if needed. Usually I turn the pow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:48:03 GMT Dale wrote: > Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-01-01 18:09, Dale wrote: > >> As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do > >> back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if > >> needed. Usually I turn the power on, mount it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Dale
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-01-01 18:09, Dale wrote: > >> As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do >> back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if >> needed. Usually I turn the power on, mount it, do the back ups, >> unmount and turn the power back off. Us

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-01 18:09, Dale wrote: > As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do > back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if > needed. Usually I turn the power on, mount it, do the back ups, > unmount and turn the power back off. Usually it is powered up for 5