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Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux?

From "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: usb external drives not reliable for linux?
Date 2014-06-22 13:41 +0000
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:34:34 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> cts

>> Okay, I may have found it: http://lwn.net/Articles/253587/
>> 
>> But I haven't had a chance to test it yet.


Well, I wasn't able to make progress with that.  But I noticed something
interesting...

My drive is mounted from /dev/disk/by-id.  Every time this event happens,
the device, /dev/sd?3, changes - first, it's at /dev/sdb3, then after
remount it's at /dev/sdc3, and then, the next time it happens, it goes
back to /dev/sdb3 again.

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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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