Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 06:33:21 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm@yahoo.it> Cc: Arrigo Marchiori via freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Random truncated files on USB hard disk with timeouts; how to debug? Message-ID: <7759.1476858801@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20161019062812.GA93031@nuvolo> References: <20161018152715.GC89691@nuvolo> <51997.1476812624@critter.freebsd.dk> <20161019062812.GA93031@nuvolo>
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-------- In message <20161019062812.GA93031@nuvolo>, Arrigo Marchiori writes: >It is a USB disk bought some years ago, that contains actually >rotating platters. It has a Y-shaped cable, to get power from two >ports. Y-cables are a big warning sign. You can try plugging the "power-only" plug into a high quality 1 ampere USB charger, but that is no guarantee for success. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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