29 Sep
2008
29 Sep
'08
4:38 p.m.
Guest 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....
Perhaps the drive is spinning down without informing the OS. I recall an issue last year(?) about some USB drives not behaving properly and spinning down without informing the OS, then the OS tries to access them it gets an I/O error.
All of my 2.5" western digital external USB drives seem to behave correctly when going into power save mode, have never had an I/O error as a result of them spinning down.
nate