On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Guest notconfusedaboutthattoday@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to double up on your answer like this, but is there any chance that the i/o errors are due to a bad usb cable, or usb card in the main computer? I didn't mention before that the external hdd that the seagate is replacing also reported a lot of i/o errors and kept disconnecting itself, which is why I replaced it....
Have you tried using a different USB cable, and maybe a different USB controller? That would narrow down your search parameters a bit.
You can also try running Seagate's Seatools program - it is available for Linux from their web site, but you have to poke around a little to find it.
Also, have you tried any other diagnostics to see what might be the problem?
mhr