USB drive - slow to mount / unmount

[maestrobwh1]

Karmic has been really great in so many ways. KDE is the snappiest I have seen since 3.x Looks and funtions great for the most part.

I am having an odd issue with an WD My Book 500 GB usb drive ever since I installed alpha-4. If I click on the auto-mounter in Dolphin to mount it, it takes forever and a day for me to be able to move files to and from it. The drive light just shows 'activity' for a very long time, almost like the entire thing is being scanned for every file.

The latest 2.6. -10 kernel actually refused to unmount the drive once mounted giving a "busy" warning. Using -9 for now.

[dibl]

Re: USB drive - slow to mount / unmount

If I click on the auto-mounter in Dolphin to mount it, it takes forever and a day for me to be able to move files to and from it.

It should not be necessary to do that. USB devices, including hard drives, should be found by HAL and auto-mounted to /media. How long are you giving it after you plug it in? Wait 3 minutes, then in Konsole run lsusb and let's see if it is on the bus.

Late-breaking thought -- is it formatted NTFS? Because there is presently a bug, reported elsewhere on this forum, for NTFS formatted drives.

[maestrobwh1]

Re: USB drive - slow to mount / unmount

No, it is fat32. Under Intrepid, it just mounted and unmounted within seconds. What happens in karmic... I click the icon and the folders on the drive show up quick, but the blue drive light bobs up and down showing activity for over a minute. During this time, it almost locks up the computer, as in stuff is very slow to respond. I am just wondering what is going on. Is something indexing the files?