Twonky locks up my Asus WL500gx?

[sebw]

I am using Twonky on my Asus WL500gx, running latest Oleg firmware, to serve video to my DSM-520 from an attached Western Digital Essential 320G USB drive.

After an hour or two of viewing, the film freezes and when I come to telnet into the Asus, to see what's going on, I am locked out. I also loose access to the Asus Web config pages. My only course of action at this stage has been to do a power on reset at the Asus.

As a test, I set 'top' running via telnet and left it open on my PC. When the 'freeze' next occured, 'top' was still running showing a process called 'init' taking up most of the CPU time. When I exited 'top' with ctrl-C, the telnet link was broken and I could not re-establish it.

Any ideas or suggestions anyone?

[sebw]

Not just bumping, honest!

By switching off my swap file I have been able to get the following in my syslog:

Mar 3 19:17:58 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:02.2-2 address 3
Mar 3 19:17:59 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 01:02.2-2, assigned address 4
Mar 3 19:18:03 kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
Mar 3 19:18:13 kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Mar 3 19:18:13 kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6070000
Mar 3 19:18:13 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 161165720
Mar 3 19:18:13 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 161165728
Mar 3 19:18:13 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 161165968

This is followed by many more I/O errors.

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Thanks in advance.