On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 12:47:37 -0700
Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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


Now I'd rather stick with the stock kernel before trying the eSATA transfer. If that fails, I'll go and test what you suggested. 

Thanks.

Andras