I got a similar problem, but not sure it's the same. My external USB HDD (Iomega 320GB USB2.0) is automatically mounted on /media/disk-1 at my Ubuntu10.04 startup through /etc/fstab:
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda2 /opt ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=a1a3d3a1-6a3c-4f16-9015-8bd1876fa89b none swap sw 0 0 UUID=51165527-e547-4bea-ac72-83c8290826f8 /media/disk-1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0 Every monday, I'm starting up my Linux machine, taking care that the HDD is powered on before powering on my PC. This to ensure HDD is ready when Ubuntu needs it. Indeed Ubuntu startup is very fast now. HDD contains two partitions (ext3 and NTFS): $ mount | grep sdb /dev/sdb2 on /media/disk-1 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) /dev/sdb1 on /media/15388EE8577DA058 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions) Nevertheless startup message tells me that /media/disk-1 cannot be mounted because drive is not ready/present. Then after few seconds, it disappeared, and loggin screen pops up. It has been properly mounted but accesses (writes) are terribly slow. I restart my machine without powering off my HDD and everything got back to normal performances. As long as I restart, performances are ok. If I shutdown, next reboot will be terrible in terms of external USB HDD performances... I haven't made many logs but can get some on demand. -- Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
