[ale] NAS

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:45 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>One thing to be sure of is to run fsck every now and then.  If you 
>>don't, you could well have problems.  I've never had any problems
>>with 
>>usb disks.  I've got two right now 200G and 300G sitting on my main
>>box.
> 
> 
> You know how long it takes to to fsck a 120gb partition on usb 1.1?
> On 2.0 I keep getting error messages "refusing I/O to dead device".
> If I dropped it to 1.1 it would work but be too slow to be usable.

I've got both of mine running 2.0 with no problems.  Also, I cron the 
fsck to run in the early mornings.

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Until later, Geoffrey