External USB harddrives...

[Jerry McBride]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:06:11 -0800 Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 02/17/03 12:30, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I had some real "lock up" issues with kernel 2.4.20 usb drivers, but the
> > 2.4.21-rc4 patch seems to have fixed most of them... What seems to be
> > happening is... cp'ing files to the usb harddrive goes along smoothly until
> > at a random moment the transfer stalls and the system load begins a steady
> > spiral up... until total lockup. I've seen system load numbers from top
> > reaching 12.00.
> 
> Something is blocking on IO.
> 

Lonni... my nice year old son would say something like' "duh..." :')


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