-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok I see So just try same think with "sync" and tell us if it work ... Perhaps a bug on kernel too, try another kernel : vanilla-sources for example vanilla has no gentoo patch, perhaps a bug in this, need to try Do you use genkernel ? or make kernel conf yourself ? when you do lspci, they give you information of module use for your controller, OHCI for you so ... just unload uhci / ehci / ohci load ohci plug the disk, try mount normally, do transfert ... you will be at usb1 speed ... so slow well ... umount disk, unplug disk, load ehci module, plug the disk see dmesg on console "CTRL + ALT + F1", and dmesg command See somethink strange ? so ... mount and try again .. does it crash ? if yes, reboot, and redo same fink, with "sync" mount option does it crash ? speed could be slower (twice slower than async) for me I'm using that, and it work well, for my disk, but now I don't need it anymore, usb work well with my disk, but sync help me on starting with older kernel version let's try all this so have fun -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) - WinPT 1.0.1 iD8DBQFFnVb8Eg3iyspSWPARAvybAJ4wjY8tmn+vdnFjgUJn/aDiqJHt8wCdFpVp t91F/43gwGmz6wq3DeJBTw4= =qSiL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----