External FAT32 drive USB1.1 problems yes, more than one
The basic tenants of Linux advocacy revolve around several simple rules. 1. Never admit Linux has a problem. 2. Never agree with a person posting problems with Linux. 3. Never bring facts...
OK, here they are, wonder if anyone's got any answers for me?
1. moving large numbers of files to-from the drive causes a hard system lock, everything freezes solid; only solution so far is a hard restart. 2. after an as yet undetermined amount of uptime, hotplugging said drives results in... nothing. No automount, only solution so far is restarting X.
An alternative solution I have considered (but not got around to testing yet) is to reformat the drives using a Linux native filesystem such as ext2. I'd like advice on this first, possibly from someone with experience with such things.
System spec:
Dell Labreastude C840 Pentium 4 Mobile 2.0GHz 1GB PC2100 DDR RAM 100GB HDD
System Release:
SuSE Linux 9.2 kernel release 2.6.8-24-23-default XGL 0.0.1 (from CVS) Compiz 0.0.2 (from CVS) KDE 3.3.0 "Desktop" package installation (full, from SuSE 9.2 DVD)
File manager:
Konqueror 3.3.0-10
All packages are up-to-date, SuSE Watcher runs daily. -- When all else fails... Use a hammer.
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