On Apr 28 12:55:58, [email protected] wrote:
> > I wasn't able to find out what "error 5" is.
>
> EIO. There are probably horrible I/O error messages in your dmesg prior
> to this panic.
Actually, there are none. Could this indicate that
the USB enclosure or the cable is faulty? The disk
is functioning without a glitch now. I am running
dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/null bs=8m
to see if it reports some errors.
> > I will try disabling softdeps on that filesystem.
>
> This will indeed avoid the panic (which occurs because at this point
> there is no way to propagate the I/O error up to the filesystem
> operation which has triggered it), but that won't fix the I/O error.
>
> I'd suggest doing backups and gettting ready to replace the disk.
Yes, I did a backup of those backups :-)
