[Linux-disciples] External USB drive

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:07:35PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
> I would really like this to be consistently reliable.  My best guess as to what
> happens is that when the drive goes to sleep after 15 minutes, unpredictable
> things happen at wake up.  Has anybody else had experience with this sort of
> drive?

<after 10 seconds of appraisal, on my way out the door to
catch a train>

Well, I've had problems if I disconnect the USB cable before
unmounting it. Have you done that? You should always unmount
before disconnecting.

Also, NTFS -- last I knew -- wasn't as stable under Linux
as, say, ext3. Do you need to have it run NTFS?

</after 10 seconds of appraisal, on my way out the door to
catch a train>

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