Comment 13 for bug 405022

I have the same problem in Ubuntu 9.10.
I was never able to use gparted while my external 4096 byte/sector usb drive was connected.
I went ahead and made the desired partitions using fdisk. After backing up a lot of data in that drive, I found out my drive was performing real slow writing.
I read that aligning the start sector to 64 solves the problem, but I did it with fdisk's defaults which led to an unnaligned slow drive.
It would be nice if gparted didn't crash every time I connect the drive.
I don't know what data to append so I'll wait for someone to ask.
Thanks.