Your problem may be the e-sata hardware itself. I recently bought a (cheap) e-sata PCI card from Newegg: <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124010> that uses the Initio INIC 1623 chip. I bought the card because I had just one internal Sata port left and I thought I'd "upgrade" my old system. I put a 1Tbyte drive on the e-sata. Straight ext3 w/ journaling; single filesystem; no raid; no LVM. (Use it for incremental system backups.) I needed to pull in a file from a backup at one point couple of weeks ago and found it was corrupted. Ran fsck. The fsck started locking-up, then continuing again. It found all sorts of inode problems. My /var/log/messages file was full of error timeouts and resets on this drive. On a lark, I plugged the drive directly into the remaining internal sata with an e-sata --> sata conversion cable. The timeouts stopped. After many hours of data moving I was able to reconstruct most everything. I re-made a fresh ext3 on it, moved the data back, and the disk has been running fine since. Fsck's don't stop and start and lockup, and they find no corrupted inodes. All seems well. Aside: the e-sata card seemed to work fine (no lock-ups) when short amounts of data were transferred. But when I started pulling 55MB/s for more than 3 or 4 seconds during the fsck, the lockups and resets would start. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
