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Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux?

From Stef <not@this.address.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux?
Date 2014-06-22 01:26 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Charles T. Smith wrote:

> I bought an external usb drive for external storage for my linux system.  
> I discover that after a while (15 minutes?) of inactivity, I get this 
> message:
>
>   ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
>
> If I cd away and back again, my directory is back.  Is that implicit in 
> usb or the drive?  Can a disk be made to not do that?  I have it mounted
> in sync mode.

I'm going to take a wild guess, and say check your Power Settings.
 It sounds like your external drive is being powered down due to lack
of activity.

If you gave more information like what distro you're using and what it's
running on, maybe, more than a guess can be offered.

Stef

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usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 16:34 +0000
  Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2014-06-22 01:26 +0000
    Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Ralf S. Hellersen" <schneiderxr@arcor.de> - 2014-08-08 19:59 +0000
      Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-08-08 15:35 -0700
  Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2014-06-22 01:28 +0000
    Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-06-23 09:42 -0500
      Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2014-06-24 10:18 +0300
        Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.com> - 2014-06-24 07:36 -0400
          Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 18:32 +0000
            Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.com> - 2014-06-24 16:47 -0400
  Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 13:41 +0000
    Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2014-06-23 05:13 +0000
    Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 20:10 +0000
      Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2014-06-25 06:04 +0000
        Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 19:04 +0000

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