>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Rosengren <jeremy.rosengren at gmail.com> writes: Jeremy> Couple of things -- do have a way of verifying that the drive is Jeremy> working properly, ie, another machine? Also, did you mention what Jeremy> kernel version you were running? I used to have it in a removable hard drive drawer, where it worked fine. I'm inclined to think it would be a good idea to just reformat the dang thing and see if that helps (maybe just pulling it out of the hard drive drawer and putting it into the usb enclosure wasn't a great idea). But I was wondering if there was something about the USB interface that caused it to do this weird repeated incrementing of the mount count. Seemed like if it was repeatedly automounting the drive while doing rsync, that could easily account for a lot of slowdown! couldn't find anything about it on google (but then almost all i found with that error message and USB was various and sundry dmesg-like dumps). kernel 2.6.3-15mdk-p3-smp-64GB Thanks! R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list