Guest wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM, partha chowdhury <kira.laucas at gmail.com > <mailto: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... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos i had the same problem as yours a while back. i have tried different solutions : 1> check with different usb cable. 2> may be the hdd is going bad . run e2fsck -f <device> and see what the output is . 3> try with a different machine. 4> experiment with noacpi and noirqdebug kernel boot parameters.