System lockups caused by USB external HDD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 24/01/2011, at 9:10, CDP wrote:
> g_vfs_done():da0s2[WRITE(offset=xxxxxxxxxxxx, length=16384)]error = 5
> [several more lines similar to the above]
> panic: softdep_move_dependencies: need merge code
> cpuid = 0
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> #0 0x... at kdb_backtrace+0x5e
> #1 0x... at panic+0x182

It looks like the disk is dying, or the FS is corrupt (the former might cause the later).

Can you run smartctl on the disk? Unfortunately a lot of enclosures reject SMART commands so you might not be able to :(

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