[mythtv-users] Problems with External USB Drives

[Jonno]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:13 AM, aaron <memoryguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, the drive froze during the defrag.
>> "bad write of 16773120 bytes to /media/disk/.fsr/ag1/tmp7231: Input/output error
>> could not remove tmpdir: /media/disk/.fsr/ag0: Input/output error.."
>>
>> Will try again. Any suggestions?
>
> I recall reading somewhere (xfs man pages, perhaps?) that the XFS
> tools intentionally bomb if they get an IO error from the hardware. I
> have had problems with that in the past. And, in fact, my external
> drive started having issues yesterday morning.
>
> I'd guess that your drive works fine until it happens to hit one of
> the bad sectors, and then it hangs. At least, that's what I think is
> happening for my drive.
>
> In my case, I left the drive unplugged for a while, then plugged it
> back in and it seems "happier" for the moment, so I left the machine
> (and drive) running, and hopefully it will continue to be happy until
> I can get out to buy some sort of replacement.
>
Well the frag level did drop from 99.38% to 99.29% so I guess I will
keep trying for a while and see what progress I can make. Also I've
tried to run spinrite (grc.com) on the drive to see if there were
sector problems but with a 750GB drive via external USB it was gonna
take weeks.