Problems with external SATA disk

[Frank McCormick]

On 10/03/2014 02:17 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 10/03/2014 12:01 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>> I am running Fedora 20 (updated from 19) and have started having
>> problems with an external SATA disk. It's connected through a USB
>> adapter.
>>

> Been there and done that. I was plagued
> with this problem for many weeks until I
> kicked the drives off of usb.
> USB is the poorest type of connection for disk drives.
> That's why I use an eSATA PcCard with 2 eSATA-3 ports
> and connect the drive to the eSATA ports.
> This of course requires that you have an enclosure which
> provides eSATA ports.
> After I did this, all such problems as you report totally disappeared.
>
>

   Disappointed to hear that - strange the problems didn't start
until Fedora 20. Running under 19 I never had errors of any kind
with the same disk...it was slow, but that's USB.



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