Comment 19 for bug 1332722

I'm afraid I'm not really in a position to help here. Can't think why LUKS would cause random disconnecting but other use wouldn't. I would have thought the USB drivers would present an encapsulated view of the disk to LUKS so there shouldn't really be disconnects; I could be very wrong though. To my mind it would be more feasible that something in the way LUKS might cause more disk seeking or bursts than other scenarios might more regularly reveal a bug in the USB drivers (or more likely a bug in the device you're using and that a kernel patch needs created for).

Have you tried this in Ubuntu out of interest? If not, I think it might worth testing and if reproducible there then you might get better response or ideas from the Ubuntu community. No offence to Linux Mint - I love it - but I don't think they're as able to deal with core Ubuntu or Linux Kernel issues. It's been a while since I originally created this issue, but in that time I think I've learned that this is not the best place to direct this type of problem.

Please let me know how you get on.