[ale] NAS
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Feb 5 01:10:19 EST 2006
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
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