20 Mar
2011
20 Mar
'11
3:36 p.m.
On 20 Mar 2011 at 16:02, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 3/20/11 3:44 PM, ben wrote:
That drive light keeps flashing even when I just
press
the keys writing this.
Funny you should mention that. I've got a portable Hitachi 2TB eSATA
drive that I use as a backup with various systems. Today I was doing
a backup from my wife's system. The backup finished, but the drive
was still (audibly) clunking away. I shut down the system, but left
the drive powered up. It continued its conversation with the aether,
unabated. I powered the connected system back up and things looked
normal. Eventually after about 5 minutes, the activity stopped.
No indication of errors; the backup looks fine.
The cache on this thing couldn't have been THAT big. Any idea what
was going on?
--Chuck