On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 09:59:56AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > 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? That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself properly after the suspend. This is very common. In fact, I wrote a script (in Gentoo) to unmount external drives before a suspend operation, so that the numbering of disks in /dev don't become littered with 'zombie' drives. I'm sure there's a super-slick way of getting drives to remount themselves after a suspend, but mounting drives is relatively easy to do either with gui or cli tools, so I don't tear my hair over it. Terry -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
