Re: external (USB) disk errors causing hangs and 100% cpu core usage

2015-07-28 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:40:10 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 27/07/15 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. > > When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. > > Even worse, when I try to umount it, the um

Re: external (USB) disk errors causing hangs and 100% cpu core usage

2015-07-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/07/15 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. Even worse, when I try to umount it, the umount hangs indefinitely, using 100% of one of my cpu cores. I haven't yet

external (USB) disk errors causing hangs and 100% cpu core usage

2015-07-27 Thread Celejar
Hi, I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. Even worse, when I try to umount it, the umount hangs indefinitely, using 100% of one of my cpu cores. I haven't yet found any way to recover short of hard