I am using CentOS 5.5 and have been using cpio to write backups to a 2 TB GoFlex USB drive. This drive worked great for over a year, but am now running into a problem and not sure what to do.When cpio is executing, I see files it's writing flying by on the screen and eventually, it end up with a Read-only file system error at different spots during the backup.CPIO error: 'cpio: write error: Read-only file system' Result code = 256Copying a large file results in a 'Read-only file error'For example: cp: writing `/goflex/d1/ssi/daily/tophat_bkup_201307172000.cpio': Read-only file systemAfter receiving the error, I run '/sbin/fsck.ext3 -y /dev/sda1' on the drive and it recovers the journal and cleans the file system.Sometimes I can copy a large file to it without problems, other times it dies with the error above within minutes.Any ideas??Bad drive??Something else I should try??Tried reformatting the hard drive with fdisk (delete old partition) and formatting it again with '/sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1' but...As soon as I tried backing up to it again, I receive the error above.. Arggg!!!Thx!!!UPDATED:smartctl -H /dev/sdasmartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5PAE] (local build)Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSEDPlease note the following marginal Attributes:ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   056   042   045    Old_age   Always   In_the_past 44 (0 14 48 28 0)smartctl -t short /dev/sda - complete without any errorsRunning 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' now but this should take a while..Results:Extended offline always aborts.  No sure what aborted by host means but my guess isthat it found something it didn't like on the disk.  Not a very detailed report.smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdasmartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5PAE] (local build)Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error1  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%     151892  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%     151893  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%     151884  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     151865  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%     151866  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%     151867  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     15186
Problems with USB goflex 2 TB
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