Hey SuSErs,

I got my external Firewire drive mounted yesterday, but since then, I've notice that when I try to copy or delete big amounts of data from/to the drive it locks up my computer.

For example, later last night I was listening to the MP3's from that drive and deleting a lot of junk that was on other directories of the same drive. I was using also Xchat , Kmail and edonkey... all this at once... and

----- Original Message ----- From: <linux@sergioespinoza.com> To: "SuSE Linux English" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 4:14 AM Subject: [SLE] Firewire drive locks up my computer then

my computer did lock up. :(

Today I got the same issue (lock up) but with less processes running, I was trying to delete a big directory from the drive...

I don't think this is normal, am I wrong?

I added this line to fstab, and SuSE loads my drive fine... /dev/sda1 /firewire auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0

I'm running this linux box with a PIII 600, 128RAM, Kernel 2.4.20-4GB and SuSE 8.2 Pro. The drive is using fat32 and before yesterday it was only used with Windoze.

Any ideas on what could be wrong? lack of power from my linux box? lack of memory? File system?

<snip> On USB2 and firewire drives connected on a SuSE box, copying or deleting large amounts of data sometimes results in the dialog box showing the progress of copy or delete operation appearing frozen. However, the other applications are accessible. Leaving the dialog box for a couple of minutes results in the copy or delete being completed. It would appear that the copy / delete operation is progressing but the dialog box is not being updated. HTH. LW999