-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/07 22:15, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a factory recertified Fantom Drives 120 GB USB > drive. I have just begun to use it, and I'm experiencing major > headaches. Every now and then (I don't see a triggering condition or > chronological pattern, but I see the problem several times a day) the > drive goes offline. Sometimes remounting fixes it, but at least twice > (including the period after the second incident seen below in the log) > it required power cycling. One of those times its status light went > red; usually it stays its normal blue, including during and after the > second incident below. I don't know much about HDDs; I'm including > copious syslog extracts from the last couple of failures. > Is this a hardware problem? Is there anything I can do?
Seems to me you've got a bad drive. The red light is a bad sign. > Aug 28 21:29:37 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 3 > Aug 28 21:29:37 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 > Aug 28 21:29:38 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 > Aug 28 21:29:38 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 3 > Aug 28 21:29:38 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 > Aug 28 21:29:38 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 > Aug 28 21:29:38 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 3 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device not accepting address 3, error > -71 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 3 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device not accepting address 3, error > -71 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: USB disconnect, address 3 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: > hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector > 124256335 > Aug 28 21:29:39 lizzie kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block > 15532034 [snip] > Aug 28 22:38:50 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 > Aug 28 22:38:50 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 11 > Aug 28 22:38:50 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device not accepting address 11, > error -71 > Aug 28 22:38:50 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 12 > Aug 28 22:38:51 lizzie kernel: usb 5-7: device not accepting address 12, > error -71 > > [snip] > > Aug 28 22:39:27 lizzie kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device > Aug 28 22:39:50 lizzie last message repeated 4 times > Aug 28 22:51:19 lizzie -- MARK -- - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1TDxS9HxQb37XmcRAg2eAKC2HVc3ozSxAgx83xOFyUA4Gy3KhQCfWp03 KtEGMRqMRcGhIgeOHwS5i9g= =PCl5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
