On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>
>> Yes, I've tried that. The rough sequence of events is something like this:
>>
>> 1) running on old x86 hardware the extern USB HD worked fine. Using kernel
>> 2.6.12.
>> 2) Buy new hardware. Reassemble machines with new parts. New machines are
>> amd64 so I reinstall Debian using the amd64 port.
>> 3) Compile new kernel for new hardware. Use kernel 2.6.15.
>> 4) Machine is working fine except for external HD and minor hotplugging
>> problem with USB KB and mouse.
>> 5) On random advice from a LUG member, recompile a 2.6.12 kernel since the
>> drive was known to have worked even if the underlying hardware is all new.
>> 6) External HD still works with 2.6.12 kernel, but due to some NFS issues we
>> move back to 2.6.15.
>>
>> So, that's the chain of events. That all too place over the span of about 4
>> days. Also, when the drive first didn't work on the newer kernel we plugged
>> it into a Windows laptop and worked okay.
>
>So earlier when you said that the USB drive didn't work with any kernel
>later than 2.6.12, in fact you didn't know that. You only knew that it
>worked with 2.6.12 and not with 2.6.15. But you haven't tried 2.6.13 or
>2.6.14.
Hmmm, you do have me there a little. There is a third machine in the office
(x86 P4) which has kernel 2.6.14 on it and it did not work when plugged into
that machine. However, that machine sees little use, so the drive not working
on it may be do to something else.
But, you are correct that I never actually tried on 2.6.13. For completeness,
I will try both kernels 2.6.13 and 14 on the new machine with USB debugging
enabled. I will let you know of the results.
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