USB HD locking up SuSE 9.3 Server

dougnc · 08-22-2008, 01:04 PM

At work we have an HP proliant ML 370 server running SuSE 9.3

A few months ago we got an 500 gb USB hard drive to back up to. I plugged it in and I started rsyncing to it for a month or two.

Two weekends ago on a Sunday the server just locked up. I got this error when rebooting.

"cartechdata kernel uhci_ hcd 0000:00:1d:0 host controller process error, something bad happened!

cartechdata kernel uhci_ hcd 0000:00:1d:0 host controller halted, very bad! "

This happened 4 times, the last number went from 0 above to 3.

Now yesterday while rsyncing to the USB drive it locked up again. When it rebooting I couldn't find the error messages so I finished up the rsync.

Of course, today during my noon rsync backup it all locked up again.

Any ideas on what's going on?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 08-22-2008, 06:14 PM

Have you tried that usb drive on another machine? It's possible that the usb drive controller is faulty and fails under sustained load.

dougnc · 08-26-2008, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Have you tried that usb drive on another machine? It's possible that the usb drive controller is faulty and fails under sustained load.

I just can't see how a faulty usb HD could lock up the entire server. But it's odd that it worked for over a month without a problem, perhaps it is a hardware problem.

Thanks!