On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:19:29PM -0700, Ross Alexander wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Harad Weiss wrote > > >Message: 7 > >Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:59:17 +0100 > >From: Harald Weis <ha...@free.fr> > >Subject: Re: umass: AutoSense failed > >To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > >Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> > >Message-ID: <20101210215917.ga2...@pollux.local.net> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > >[big snip] > > > >The AutoSense failure occurs on two desktop computers, whether > >motherboard or not, and on three laptops. As I said, all PC's > >run 8.1-RELEASE. > >What I do not know is whether the Sony DSC (Digital Still Camera) has > >worked on 8.0-RELEASE. I didn't use it for some time, so I'm afraid > >I never tried it on 8.x. > >But I am sure it worked on all earlier releases. > >In my original post I have forgotten to mention that I never had any > >problems with all sorts of thumbdrives and USB disks. > >Fortunately, I can read the 256MB CF memory of the DSC on an Ubuntu > >laptop. > >Could it possibly be a DSC hardware problem which is ignored by Ubuntu, > >but not by FreeBSD? > > My Sony DSC camera did work under 8.0-RELEASE. It's a model DSC-W35. > It's seeing the umass problem now, and has since 8.1-PRERELEASE afair. > > This fault is the same on i386 or amd64, intel or amd chipsets, USB > 1.0 or 2.0, through hubs or straight off the m/b, etc.. I'm keeping a > backup box (intel atom / i386) running 7.3-STABLE around specifically > to work around the problem. I'd have said something eralier, but I've > gotten used to small nits poppping up and then disappearing; this one > is dragging along :( I haven't looked at the List for a while, so I only saw your message yesterday. In the mean time, I've re-learned to work with bootable memory sticks. I've had no luck yet with ReWritable CDs which I need for all boxes but one. Perhaps a blanking problem? Here is the summary of my trials in Fixit mode for my Sony DSC-P10 which is also (at last) the answer to Jeremy's message:
7.2-RELEASE-i386-livefs: OK 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick: OK FreeBSD-8.1-STABLE-201009-i386-memstick: AutoSense failed FreeBSD-8.2-PRERELEASE-201012-i386-memstick: booting OK, but "No USB devices found!" <message extract> CAM status: SCSI Status Error SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc: 28,0 (Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed) da0: 1915MB (3922944 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. </message extract> FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201009-i386-memstick: AutoSense failed Is it not a case for send-pr(1) ? Best regards, Harald _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"