Accessing USB disks through SSH/(S)FTP

[latomus]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your help.

sudo chmod -R 0755 /media/<usb_disk_name> made it work when using FTP.

However, after some promising preliminary tests, I tried to transfer a batch of about 15 folders each containing the equivalent of a "CD" 24 bits, 96 kbps and in the middle of the transfer, I received an error meesage indicating that the network distant location had reportedly become unavailable.

Observations :
When this kind of messages appears, the RPi suddenly reboots
When it reboots, there is a cycle of several restarts before the RPi gets finally up
When it is up, I see in /media the same USB-disk several times, with underscores appended :

WD-MUSIC
WD-MUSIC_
WD-MUSIC__
WD-MUSIC___
etc.

I see all the files in that label with the largest number of underscores and nothing in the others.

The RPi has become higly unstable and restarts quite frequently.

Do you have any valuable ideas as how to investigate this issue? I am out of my basic knwoledge of linux here...

Thanks

Regards

P.