On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM, partha chowdhury <kira.laucas at gmail.com>wrote: > Guest3731 wrote: > >> >> if you take it out and put it back again is it automatically mounted and > can kernel see it when you do fdisk -l ? > 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.... Thanks for any clues... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080928/0eb376f8/attachment-0005.html>