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Re: [BackupPC-users] Scary problem with USB3...

2011-12-15 14:30:00
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Scary problem with USB3...
From: Mark Maciolek <maciolek AT unh DOT edu>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:37:27 -0500
On 12/15/2011 1:31 PM, Zach La Celle wrote:
> We just upgraded our backup machine and are using an external USB3 hard
> drive for backups.
>
> Last night, something went wrong, and when I got in this morning I saw
> the following errors on the backup machine:
>
> [88921.670598] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 0, error -71
> [88921.670665] hub 1-0:1.0: cannot disable port 1 (err = -32)
> [88921.674631] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address.
> [88921.880971] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address.
>
> Could this be caused by BackupPC?  When I unplugged and replugged the
> USB hard drive, it started working, but I'm worried that BackupPC is
> corrupting the drive somehow.
>
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hi,

I see that issue all the time with external usb disks and they are not 
being used by BackupPC.
Never done much about it except if it kept happening notified the end 
user that their external disk maybe dieing.

Mark


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