USB Disk takes a LOT of time mounting. Even FREEZE the DE

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Hi again people.

I don’t know if its related with my last post running here: My DVD drive start working bad recently in KDE 4.4.3 - openSUSE Forums , but this is another very annoying thing happening in my openSUSE box.

I have several flash drives, from several sizes and all have the same problem: When I plug them, the drive simply takes a LOT of time mounting and showing the data, but really, a LOT, and meanwhile the flash light blinks the desktop environment its FREEZE, until it shows the mounted drive.

Some output from a recently plug that takes again a lot of time:


 4685.082027] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
 4685.579461] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0325, idProduct=ac02
 4685.579480] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 4685.579493] usb 1-6: Product: RALLY2
 4685.579503] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
 4685.579514] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: AA04012700243477
 4685.579679] usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
 4685.580279] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
 4685.580817] usb-storage: device found at 5
 4685.580820] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
 4686.587060] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     OCZ      RALLY2           1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
 4686.587555] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
 4686.599512] usb-storage: device scan complete
 4686.599544] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 7831552 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.73 GiB)
 4686.606027] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
 4686.606038] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
 4686.606040] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
 4686.620146] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
 4686.620158]  sdg: sdg1
 4686.651032] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
 4686.651051] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
 4725.711552] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 5

What could be? This was tested against: KDE 4.3.5 and 4.4.3 with the same results.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

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Hi, I’m bringing alive again this post just because i have tried everything that i can guess without success.

  • Update to KDE 4.4.4
  • Update BIOS

So, Its still taking ages to mount USB Drives, and this happens in all my openSUSE installations: Laptop, PC, Netbook.

What could be? :frowning:

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Hi,

I’ve also been experiencing this problem with an External Western Digital MyBook USB HD. So we can at least start finding any similarities, what kind of filesystem are you using? I note that I have been using NTFS so I can use the drive in windows and linux with no limitations on file sizes. I think my issue may be my filesystem becoming fragmented as an EXT3 partition of the same drive mounts quickly. This may also happen if you’re using a fat32 filesystem on your usb drives.

I’m using openSUSE 11.2 KDE 4.5 RC2, but it’s happened in previous KDE versions as well.

Take Care,

Ian