I have an external USB3, 2TB, WD HDD which is formatted in ntfs. I also have an external USB2 500GB Maxtor also formatted in ntfs and which I have used for years to do backups of my Linux system files. Never a problem in the past. However, I have now found that, starting with the more recent upgrades of the kernel from Kernel:/stable/standard for 12.2 (and now 12.3) and using the 2TB WD HDD copying files from an ext4 formatted partition to ntfs formatted drives fail. Let me describe things from the start: * I switch on the external WD and access its contents with Dolphin. I then use mc (Midnight Commander) to copy files from the main system to the external; * even though the WD HDD is a USB 3 device and connected to a USB 3 port the transfer rate is no better than what I got using USB 2; * a copy from ext4 partition at some stage fails with an error message that "Cannot chmod target file - no such file or directory (2)" - or some other similar error message which is usually a (5) number - but many other files HAD been successfully copied across; * BUT, but, and this is what has me scratching my head, is *that* *the* USB* *device* *is* *umounted* and is no longer seen by mc NOR by Dolphin!; * the device is still in the taskbar's Device Notifier panel and Dolphin will access it and display its contents but the damn thing is initially UNMOUNTED when an error occurs during the copying process. Anybody else seeing this behaviour, or have seen it but ignored it as "just one of these things"? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.3-1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org