I already tried that in the past and it made no difference. I think I must be stress-testing the USB disk a lot more than anyone else here. Try backing up your home directory to an USB disk using rdiff-backup! :)
-- USB mass storage stops working after a while https://launchpad.net/bugs/61235 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
