Re: [Hampshire] Peculiar behaviour of USB disk

I have used an 80GB Western Digital external drive with no problems on
Mandrake 9 & 10 and Mandriva 2006 & 2007. I now use a standard 3.5" internal
HDD and an E-buyer USB/Firewire Caddy as it is cheaper.

Verify your external disk (ie run fsck on it) it sounds like an HDD problem.
Is it getting particularly hot?

Hope some of this helps,

Tim B.

On Saturday 03 February 2007 18:49, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> For years I have used an old 40Gb USB disk for backups. My photograph
> collection grows ever larger (as they do) so I've acquired a Western
> Digital 250GB device. All is well, most of the time, but I've noticed
> something odd. When I try to copy a particular directory with 104
> files from hda to the new disk, it copies 33 of them and then stops.
> When I try again, it again stops after transferring 33 files. There's
> another one which stops, every time, after transferring 17 out of 49
> files. There are 35 directories in all, larger and smaller, and every
> other one has been copied satisfactorily.
>
> Any ideas? System is a ThinkPad A21m with Dapper Drake.
>
> CAS

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