When I try to do much with my HDD that is attached via USB to my notebook I get mini lockups on my machine.
By this I mean that my machine will be operating fine (running redhat 7.3 on a compaq armada 700Mhz PIII with 320 RAM and 420Meg swap) and then my mouse will freeze under X windows running KDE desktop and will not return for anywhere from 5 seconds to a couple of minutes. My CPU as reported under the CPU display on the taskbar also show that the CPU goes to zero activity for a period of time. This is quite easy to see as I have distributed net running so my CPU usage is always near 100%. I have been seeing this behaviour for a while but seems easiest to reproduce when I do alot of IO over the USB. I was just downloading an ISO from the net to my USB harddrive while also performing md5sum on 3 iso's on the USB harddrive. That seemed to fairly easily reproduce the problem. Has anyone else seen anything like this before. Thanks for your help. -- Best Regards, David Price
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