Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 09 April 2006 01:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, it locks up whether it's on USB2.0 or FW somewhat randomly... > > Hardware problem? Bad HDD? > > Or heat? Your external enclosure might not be dissipating heat > effectively. > > Dodgy chipset? Dodgy kernel. nVidia released new graphic

RE: External hard drive woes

2006-04-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:31 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... while running faubackup backup at night via cron, the system > > locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on because it's > > too long and USB keyboards stop working after panic. No output to > >

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 09 April 2006 01:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Sat,

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 08 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've tried both, but currently using firewire with it. I'm also using an external drive (for backup purposes) inside a dual USB/Firewire enclosure, but, to be honest, I only use the Firewire function. I have not had any problems like what you describe. I'm ru

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > /

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > / (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache directories

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > / (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache directories). > > > Looking at about 75 GB > > > > My old 60GB Maxto

RE: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread David Christensen
Paul Johnson wrote: > ... while running faubackup backup at night via cron, the system > locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on because it's > too long and USB keyboards stop working after panic. No output to > system logs. Is it possible to configure Debian to boot to a serial

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > / (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache directories). > > Looking at about 75 GB > > My old 60GB Maxtor has about 45GB free, so I'm filling it up to > see if it pukes.

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > >

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2 or > > > Firewire. The problem is, randomly while runn

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2 or > > Firewire. The problem is, randomly while running faubackup backup at > > night via cron, the system locks up

Re: External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2 or > Firewire. The problem is, randomly while running faubackup backup at night > via cron, the system locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on > becaus

External hard drive woes

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Johnson
I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2 or Firewire. The problem is, randomly while running faubackup backup at night via cron, the system locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on because it's too long and USB keyboards stop working after panic. No