On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 06/30/2014 11:48 AM, Andras Horvath wrote:

>> I've been having an issue for a month or so now that I seem unable to
>> track down.
>>
>> I have an external USB drive for backup. When I start copying from the
>> computer to the external disk, it starts to fail sooner or later. Whether at
>> a large file or after several small ones, but it fails dropping messages
>> like this (taken from dmesg):

> As to Debian 6 being able to work with it and SL6 not, that could be a
> kernel difference where the Debian kernel is waiting and retrying longer in
> the case where the drive is spinning down.

You may want to test the latest kernel from kernel.org to see if a
newer kernel resolves the issue. You can yum-install it by using
'kernel-ml' [1] from ELRepo. It works fine on SL 6. When you're
finished and wish to uninstall it, just run yum remove.

Akemi

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml