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On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 23:11 +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > That's reminded me of something... > > What sort of experience have people had with USB drives in Linux? I'm > starting to think that there's something majorly wrong with Linux's > usb-storage driver. > > I've got numerous USB flash drives (64Mb-1Gb) and those all work fine. > But my experience with hard disks is terrible. I bought a USB 2.5" HDD > box, which works fine with my laptop (USB 1.1). Plug it into my PC (USB > 2.0) and it gets stuck with large transfers and I have to rip it out and > start again. Same thing with a dual purpose (3.5" or 2.5") adapter I > bought. Admittedly these are both cheap pieces of rubbish from HK, but I > wouldn't expect them to break with USB 2.0. They seem to work OK in windows. > > What I really don't understand is the 500Gb Maxtor drive (which came as > an external package rather than me shoving it in one) I bought for my > server to make backups with. That often does strange things with large > transfers as well, which isn't really inspiring. > > Anyone know if I'm just unlucky or are there genuine problems somewhere? > > Thanks. > Simon > for making drives bootable linux distros there is a rather neat app called unetbootin. A gui thing that makes the process entirely painless. I used to sometimes have very large transfers die on me, but it's not been a problem for sometime. Can you not break the transfers down in to separate transactions via a script, maybe even un and remounting between sections? Maybe as the problem doesn't occur with USB 1 to USB 2 indicates something can't handle the speed of the transfer and gets clogged up (to be technical about it) Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html