I have been searching for two days for why I am having this same problem. I have two systems, both running intrepid from the same install disc. The system with the problem is a Vostro 1000 laptop running Intrepid with 2.6.27-11. The other system is an Acer Aspire5641 desktop running the same kernel. The usb drives were both formatted with gparted on the laptop and owned by my local user account. The Acer desktop has no problems whatsoever, getting around 35MBps transfers on any usb drive. Those same drives start at about 4MBps on the laptop then drop to 600kBps. I noticed this problem because my 120gb external maxtor is what I use for movies, and my movies started skipping and then the system would become highly unstable. My laptop is almost never online as my desktop has most of the storage, so I just transfer what I want with my usb hdd. However, I do plug it in weekly and grab all updates through the update manager. The laptop played 720p movies fine, and now cannot even playback a 320x240 video without locking up. When this happens my internal hdd goes crazy, and the system slows so badly that my cursor barely moves. It is very obvious thanks to google that this is not a hardware specific issue, many people are having issues with all sorts of hardware devices, including usb controllers and different drives.
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