[Cialug] Weird USB drive issue

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> In your dmesg output, is there a corresponding message where the old drive
> disappears? (preceding what you pasted in?)
>
Indeed! There is adisconnect:

usb 1-2.4: USB disconnect, address 120

But, it's hard to tell when it happened [of course]. The bottom line is, I
believe, that Seagate drives [nor any USB attached drive IMHO] should
not be used for 'permanently' attached storage.

	Lee