-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/07 17:38, koffiejunkie wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> What if you FTP the file from the OSX box to the firewire drive on >> the external drive? >> >> That might narrow down the problem. > > Right, I just finished doing some tests. Via NFS and FTP, to the > external disc, the same thing happens. The copy runs fine (I was > copying a 3.9GB ISO) for a random amount of time - shortest now was > 300MB, longest was just under 3GB - and then the disc seem to get > unplugged. > > Then, I repeated the tests, with samba, NFS and ftp, copying the same > ISO to my home directory on the notebook, and this worked without a > problem. > > I copied the file from the notebook's drive to the external drive - no > problem. > > Then I tried the following. I ftp-ed to localhost, and did a "put > file.iso" to the external drive. This worked 100% I did similar tests > with nfs and smb, connecting to localhost and copying the file via the > smb/nfs clients - al worked fine. > > I also did at least one failed and one successful each using the > notebook's wireless instead of wired network, to rule out network > hardware, and repeated all the tests from my second notebook (which runs > Debian too). > > So it's just a mix of network and network copy that seems to cause > problems. > > I hope that's better :-) Any ideas?
Yeah. Beg for help on lkml. :( You've asked a relatively smart question. I hope lkml can help even more. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGw9meS9HxQb37XmcRAvveAJ0RamotKb9uEeYNVgL2mqtlhlxnGwCghgXU hage0DHask9sYlxD8CUkWe0= =VxK2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]