I have the same problem, tested with several external drives (including Western Digital external hard drive with a Reiser FS partition, NTFS partition, FAT32 partition and a Corsair Flash Voyager with a FAT32 partition) and occurred in Ubuntu 7.10, 7.04 and 6.10 (all versions I ever used)
kern.log Nov 22 14:08:36 ********-desktop kernel: [14762.987213] usb 4-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 This message repeats a couple of times while copying data to or from the external drive, once for every time the copying halts a few seconds. id haldaemon uid=107(haldaemon) gid=116(haldaemon) groups=116(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev),117(powerdev) uname -a Linux ******-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- Reset USB High Speed device during reading of the usb Stick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs