Hi,
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Jan T. Kim wrote:
I continue to have problems with a 1TB "Maxtor Basics" USB hard disk, after returning one disk of this kind and getting it exchanged on warranty this is now the second one that's developing problems so I wonder whether I'm doing something wrong.
Is this a Maxtor proper or a Seagate manufactured Maxtor drive?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/0115207 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/21/0052236
It might be worthwhile to tread lightly with Seagate/Maxtor drives for the time being.
a look with du at the growing amount of stuff on the disk. Upon that, the copying process started to fail with messages like
cp: writing `/media/mnt/dummy0008/include/net/ieee80211.h': Read-only file system cp: cannot create regular file `/media/mnt/dummy0008/include/net/checksum.h': Read-only file system
Probably remounted read only on detecting errors.
Feb 15 14:01:31 paxarchia kernel: [ 8431.175590] Info fld=0x0 Feb 15 14:01:31 paxarchia kernel: [ 8431.175590] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Internal target failure Feb 15 14:01:32 paxarchia kernel: [ 8431.280559] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK Feb 15 14:01:32 paxarchia kernel: [ 8431.280559] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]The hard disk made a constant, whirring sound and its green LED was blinking at 1Hz (approx).
When I umounted the file system, the whirring continued for several minutes and the umount command hang. After several minutes, though, the hard disk made a few clicks and stopped whirring, and umount completed.
Have you tried smartctl?
Srdjan