My WD extrnal usb drive automounts fine; however, the disk access is painfully slow... even for read only. Yes, I have read the release notes and I have tried the work-around for slow usb hotplug... it does not work. If I umount the drive and manually mount it with : mount -t reiserfs /def/sda1 /mnt/WD_External -o rw,nodev,nosuid,sync ... then it works wonderfully... nice and fast... What is wrong with automount usbfs, and how do I correct it. At the moment I have placed a 20thirdparty file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty to prevent this volume.uuid from auto-mounting by setting should_mount to false. Then I mount it manually. This machine is my laptop. The usb drive is a 60GB external that I use mainly for read-only reference database. I am running Suse 10 on this machine. What is the solution to this problem? By the way, mounting without sync does not fix the problem. Thanks