Re: My USB drive Freeze problem is old, and unsolved!

From: John Turnbull (rtrtr_at_rrrrv.com)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:02:34 GMT

Chris Maaskant wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004 15:07:43 +0000, John Turnbull wrote:
>
>> This post is for those searching Usenet, not for the benefit of the
>> unhelpful idiots here.
>>
>> I trashed Suse 9.1 because of the way the system froze up / had a
>> freeze / hung / went into hang mode when I copied from a Maxtor USB
>> 2 3000LE external drive to my hard disk.
>
> Just curious, have you tried midnight commander?
> When i copy big files with mc after a while the tranfer slows down
> but it does go on, i gues that's the point where konqueror crashes.
>
> I did not have any problems with nautilus either.
> I've always used gnome on suse because there isn't a single kde app
> that i use and i always found kde to be buggy, this time with the new
> 9.1 release i wanted to give kde another try, after all suse is a pro
> kde distro, but nevertheless gnome and gnome apps just works and kde
> and kde apps are still crash-happy.
>
> So maybe maxtor usb drives and linux aren't working perfecly most apps
> other than kde apps are robust enough to handle it without crashing,
> don't ask me why, this is just my experience.
>
> So again, did you try non-kde apps?

I tried the copy command in Konsole (cp command). It failed in exactly the
same way. AFAIK, mc also uses the cp commnd behind the scenes, doesn't it?

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