On Wednesday 05 July 2006 07:21, Ken Southerland wrote:
I'm on SuSE 10.0 and I've got my music on an external hard drive. I use Amarok to play it. Lately amarok has been stopping after a few songs have been played and when I investigate why it has stopped I find that my drive is no longer mounted and I can't get it remounted.
That's with an USB drive right? It's usually a problem of the bridge chip in the external USB enclosure. Linux tends to drive drives a bit more aggressively than some other operating systems and a lot of the cheaper cheaps just shut down and disappear under high load. Sometimes it also seems to depend on the USB controller in the chipset, possibly some are more aggressive than others. You can try to slow down the device by setting lower values in /sys/block/<device>/queue/* If that doesn't help you'll likely need a different USB enclosure. -Andi