Hi, i bought an external USB 2.0 harddrive frame today, which I equipped with an IBM DTLA 30 GB harddrive I had lying around. I can mount that drive via my USB 2.0 port - no problem so far. I can read/write as normal user, since I specified that in /etc/fstab "/dev/sda1 /mnt/USB vfat uid=xxx,gid=xxx,rw 0 0" Transfer rates are like I expected them to be. The problem starts, when I do anything else, then just writing to the drive or copying from it. For example, trying to watch an mpeg, which was copied onto the drive from a Win XP box. Xine/mplayer simply refuse to start and hang. After that, the files, that were copied from the Win XP box disapear. If I then umount the drive and try to remount it, it's not possible to do so: $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB Error: no blockoriented device $ mount -o loop /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB (-o shouldn't be necessary) Error: no device found I tried looking for a way to restart hotplug, but I couldn't find anything in /etc/init.d/ So here are my questions: 1. Is there anything special about files, that are written by Win XP onto a FAT32 partition ? 2. Is there a quick way to restart hotplug, and would that help at all ? Or is the hd the one to blame ? I searched the list archive for "usb mount", but couldn't find anything similar. Thanks for any help or hints. bit
