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Ramon Fischer wrote: |
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> Interesting. |
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> I have some other ideas, but this is really grasping at straws. Create |
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> a backup of the backup drive before doing any tests, since you have to |
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> move it a lot for this: |
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> 1. Connect the hard drive to a different eSATA port |
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> 2. Try another eSATA cable |
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> 3. Try to mount the hard drive on different devices |
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> 4. Try different hard drive cases with different connection types |
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> (Maybe you have a better enclosure with USB or even FireWire, which |
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> does not damage your drive?) |
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> 5. Connect it internally via SATA and try to mount it |
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> 6. Mirror the hard drive to a second hard drive and try to mount the |
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> second one |
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> I think, this would entirely cover Layer 1 of the OSI Layer Model[1]. :) |
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> -Ramon |
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> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model |
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That's a lot of effort. It's annoying it doesn't close like it should |
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but doing all that would be a tedious task as well. It would eliminate |
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a lot of potential causes tho. Thing is, I think it's a software issue |
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not hardware. |
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To add to this, the 6TB drive just did the same thing. I had been using |
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UUID to mount it since it was working. After getting the same problem |
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as the other drive, I changed it. It took some effort to get it to |
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close but restarting lvm and friends did eventually get it to close. I |
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then changed it to mount by label like I been doing with the 8TB drive. |
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I think by just continuing to note what it is doing, eventually the |
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problem will show itself. Personally, I sort of wonder if it is a udev |
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problem or lvm. Thing is, a lot of this software works together so |
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closely, it's hard to know where one stops and the other starts. |
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I finished my backups to the 8TB drive and it worked start to finish |
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with no errors at all. I guess we'll see what happens next week with |
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the 6TB drive. See if it starts to work again with no problem or still |
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has issues of some kind. So far, mounting by label seems to have worked |
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well for the 8TB drive. |
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Will update again as things move along. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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