Excerpts from Victor Silva's message of 2011-02-22 14:52:34 +0100:

Hi folks i'm not 100% sure I'm posting on the right list so if im wrong please disregard and direct me to the appropriate list. :) Well I'm having a problem with USB devices causing kernel panic. I got an external 1 TB USB hard disk in NTFS format. When I tried to save some files (downloads from deluge) on it I get a kernel panic. Which files/logs can I provide to help you? The system simply hangs and all keyboard leads start to blink. I'm using Linux 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 18 18:32:16 CET 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux. It is the default arch linux kernel. If I write a small file and move to the folder things seem to be okay. Any ideas?

Thanks for the great distro folks hope you can help me on this one.

Hi, I don't know the answer but I too have problems recently (weeks? months?). I have two HDs connected via a USB hub which I only power up and connect when I need them. One of those is also NTFS formatted. I'm also on x86_64. Sometimes when I connect or power on those drives I get a kernel oops, the first ones I had in a long time. I did somehow suspect usb drivers but it might also be ntfs-3g. However, if it works, it works. I copied a couple of GB around yesterday without issues, once I managed to power up, connect and had the drive show up without kernel panic. Sadly I have no idea how to track the error down. I would like try to re-format the disk but I need to get another one first.

Hi, as the kernels officially provided by Arch are (completely) Vanilla kernels it it almost certain that problems of this kind are problems of the kernel itself. Therefore it seems to make more sense to report these issues upstream. The people there have more experience how to track down such problems, but I think it starts always with looking at the messages ;). What does dmesg and/or /var/log/messages.log say? Best regards, Karol Babioch