On Jo, 24 iun 10, 13:16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I was OP on a related thread a couple of months ago. I would say that > I abandoned trying to understand issues of checking for errors on USB > drives as a user. I did gain the impression that what I thought were > hardware errors were instead more likely software glitches in the kernel > or in loadable modules. For me, frequent running of sync seems to reduce > the error rate quite a bit. (By frequent, I mean once or twice a second. > I do this with a while loop running in a separate xterm.)
Have you tried mounting with the 'sync' option? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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