USB hard disk ON and OFF

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 03/04/2011 05:51 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2011 09:36:33 pm Alain Muls wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have an external USB HD which I labeled AMHD.
>> When I insert the HD it mounts at /media/AMHD as expected, but every
>> minute or so the HD umounts and remounts.
>> How can I avoid this behaviour which is very annoying?
>>
>> Tx/Alain
> I've got several USB HD's (2.5"&  3.5", PATA over USB as well as SATA over
> USB) and I've never seen this (although I did have a drive that would "die",
> could no more write on it after some time - the HD itself seemed faulty).
>
> Anyway, I doubt this is a Linux/Ubuntu problem, I'd look for the problem on
> the drive itself. Can you test it with another OS? Faulty USB connector? How
> is the drive powered ? Anything in the logs?
>
> Thierry
>
>
It would also help to have more info, which version of Ubuntu you are 
running, updated, etc.


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