USB external hard drive disconnecting

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Feb 5, 2008 11:05 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
> One additional irritation with this is that I'm not getting tons of
> lines like this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb  5 11:03:20 pigpen kernel: scsi 24:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
>
> So many that rsyslogd is using 50% of my CPU!  I'm not sure how to get
> that to stop, so I may need to reboot.....

For the record, these messages were only being written while I was
running e2fsck.  Once I stopped, rsyslogd calmed down.  The drive
wasn't mounted at the time, so I'm not sure why that was the case....

reid