[Linux-disciples] External USB drive

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

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?

Just guessing here, but try running it for a while read-only (-o ro for 
mount options) and see if it still fails.