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After using 10.2 for many months with no troubles at all I decided to migrate to 10.3. I had misgivings that everything would work as well as 10.2. I tried the last couple of betas and the release candidates last year, just for fun, so I imagined everything would be fine. It seems to be a great operating system, but suddenly my external hard drives transfer data at tectonic plate speeds. I used a fix for this problem long in the past, but I don't think it was openSuSE specific, and may well be out of date. I am sure one of you, who know infinitely more about openSuSE than I, can tell me how to correct this faster than I can find the answer myself.

As always I appreciate your time and help.

Joshua

After using 10.2 for many months with no troubles at all I decided to migrate to 10.3. I had misgivings that everything would work as well as 10.2. I tried the last couple of betas and the release candidates last year, just for fun, so I imagined everything would be fine. It seems to be a great operating system, but suddenly my external hard drives transfer data at tectonic plate speeds. I used a fix for this problem long in the past, but I don't think it was openSuSE specific, and may well be out of date. I am sure one of you, who know infinitely more about openSuSE than I, can tell me how to correct this faster than I can find the answer myself.

As always I appreciate your time and help.

Joshua
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what sort of transfer rates are you getting? i often find when transferring lots (maybe 1000's) of small files only a few KB each i get slow speeds, but larger files i get anything between 10-20MB/s. what format is the drive? fat32 or ntfs? i have 2 western digital drives 1 which ive made ext3 and another is fat32 and both work fine. if it's ntfs are you using ntfs-3g?

Another post made too hastily. Rebooting fixed the issue. For a system that almost never needs to reboot, it seems to help my problems more often than not.

The funny thing is, I wrote down my root password very clearly before I entered it during the install. I typed it with what I thought was supreme care when the time came to assign the password. Then, when I went to make the system the openSuSE I know and love, the password I had written down didn't match the password in the system. Apparently I entered it wrong twice, exactly the same. I spent an hour trying to figure out where, but it was just too long and too variable.
So I had to reinstall.
What a dumbass I am, right? ...lol

Everything works fine now. My first day impressions of 10.3, since my screw-up, is WOW, I likey!
Really, I got it tricked out in a fraction of the time it took before.
I pimped my new openSuSE in under 2 hours, and she looks great.

Thanks for your time.
J

strange a reboot improved your usb speed :huh: but at least it's sorted. and remember this password if you know root pw you can easily change it by going to a console and typing 'su' (without quotes) then enter current pw, then type 'passwd'

happy suse-ing