External disk problem.

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I have an external 1 TB harddisk e-sata attached used for backups. The problem is that I have few times lost connection to it. I have taken up the habit of suspending (to RAM) when I leave the machine for a while and the problem seems to happen when I reactivate the system though not every time. After a power cycle the disk attaches correctly again. There is no trace of the problem in the various logs so I am tempted to believe that it is caused by the suspend process rather than a disk failure but since it is my backup device I would like to be sure.

System: Fedora 16 with xfce 4.10
Kernel:  3.4.6-1.fc16.x86_64

Question: How can I run diagnose on the disk to see if it is about to fail permanently?

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Erik.
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