Problem with Maxtor One Touch USB harddrive

[ostehamster]

Hey

I just bought a Maxtor One Touch extern USB hard drive, and have a lot of problems with it.

First, I plug the USB cable too my pc, and use fdisk /dev/sda to make four partitions at 30GB each.

After this i type mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdaX, to make the file system, this take lots of time.

Now I mount a partition with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

At first look, I can copy files to and from the drive, but only small files. If I for example try to copy a image of FC1, it stops at about 180MB, then hangs for some minutes, copy a little more, and then die. But why?

Does anyone have any idea, what the problem can be?

kind regards - and thanks in advance
Christoffer

[Jman]

Have you tried checking it with fsck?

fsck /dev/sda1

Any errors at all, or does the transfer just stop?

This discussion on linuxquestions.org may be helpful.

[ostehamster]

There is no errors at all, when i run fsck

[csfalcon]

I am having the same problem, copying large files would cause the hard drive to stop responding. I use an usb harddrive with my laptop, I was guessing it's a power problem... are you using your usb disk with a desktop machine?

anyone else have seen or solved this problem?