On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:39:11AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:55, Oron Peled wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > I then went to the **extreme** of re-booting and spoiling my uptime ;-) > > > a few times with and without the device in the USB plug. What I > > > discovered is that the device seems to work as expected > > > **out-of-the-box** the first time only, > > > > Instead of rebooting, see if: > > rmmod usb-storage > > Make it behave nice again (because it reloads next time with hotplug). If > > this "solves" the problem, than we know where the blame lies. > > That seems to be it. I'm hesitant to say this for sure after the auto vfat > solution **seemed** to work and then didn't. > > BTW - I didn't try Yedidyah's advice since, as I wrote, this is not my device > and re-formatting is not an option. And Micha's additional advice to re-start > hotplug wasn't necessary after removing usb-storage (as both he and Oron > suggested). > > Thanks again - hopefully this time the problem really is solved
I belive this is a bug (or maybe a feature ;-) with usb-storage. For some reason it retains the devices data even after reload. I ran into this problem trying to use more then one usb device, or connecting it to a different usb port each time which caused two devices to appear instead of one. I need to look into it but maybe an action can be inserted into hotplug to force it to unload the usb-storage module when the device is removed, although it is a work around. A bug report should probably be reported to lkml or the usb mail list. > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://come.to/shlomo.solomon > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.1) on LINUX Mandrake 9.1 > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
