> You could try configuring usb-storage debugging on in your kernel. The > debugging messages will help to show more precisely where your problem > comes from. > > Alan Stern
I am still about to do that. However, in the meantime I found this out: Mounting the filesystem on that disk with the sync option seems to help somewhat. This lowers the data throughput to the disk to about 120 Kb/s, a little more than I have on my DSL connection - it still takes a lot of memory then (leaving me with about 4MB left), but in my last attempts I was able to transfer more than one Gigabyte without a crash. Sadly this only partly helps, since mkfs / fsck still do things as they always did, with chances of hanging my PC. Maybe you find this information useful :) Kind regards, Bernd Pressler -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 55th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3169
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