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Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Subject: Re: USB 2.0 External Drive - What Is A Reasonable Transfer Rate?
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Hi,

On 23 July 2009 am 10:38:35 Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I have a USB 2.0 external drive that's formatted as NTFS under
> Windows XP.  I've plugged it into my 8.0 BETA2 install and am

i did this before on 6.x and did not have this problem?

So, you are reading from the USB NTFS drive?

Can you copy some files from there to /dev/null to check that it 
is really the reading?

Erich