On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:14:24PM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone else experience interoperability problems between external > USB storage devices and VMware? I have found that VMware 3.0 even with > USB support turned off will not work with an external LaCie USB disk. > > I'm only asking to see if anyone else have tried this and seen the > same problems. > > -- > Anders Karlsson
To further detail the problem, I tried running a backup to the LaCie yesterday. I have about 14GB of stuff to copy, so I combine find and cpio to copy things. Before starting the copy, I stopped all services that was not being used, like vmware, apache, named, sendmail, sshd etc. In essence, there was very little still running and the modules loaded was the USB ones and the lt_serial/lt_modem ones. After copying a little over 2GB of stuff, the system froze, and froze to the point where SysRq would not work either. Attached is the output from /proc/bus/usb/devices as it was when I was running the backup and the output from /usr/src/linux/ver_linux. The LaCie is an 80GB Seagate disk, partitioned in four 20GB chunks. I use losetup, cryptoapi and reiserfs for the filesystem on the first partition. This is mounted and that is where the backup copies the data to. I know the losetup/cryptoapi/reiserfs setup works as I am using it on LV's on my system without problems. As far as I can track it down, this problem is in the USB layer somewhere. Regards, -- Anders Karlsson
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=1060 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=059f ProdID=0201 Rev=11.06 S: Manufacturer=LaCie S: Product=LaCie StudioDrive USB2 S: SerialNumber=11100E0003F4E9FF C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 2 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 98mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl= 32ms
If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version. Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes. Linux inspiron 2.4.18-gr-int #4 SMP Thu Feb 28 16:23:14 GMT 2002 i686 unknown Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu make 3.79.1 binutils 2.10.91.0.4 util-linux 2.11n mount 2.11n modutils 2.4.13 e2fsprogs 1.19 reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j pcmcia-cs 3.1.31 PPP 2.4.1 isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 Linux C Library 2.1.3 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.1.3 Procps 2.0.7 Net-tools 1.59 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat vmnet vmmon ipt_limit ipt_LOG ipt_state ip_conntrack ipt_unclean iptable_filter ip_tables serial tulip_cb cb_enabler ds i82365 pcmcia_core snd-card-es1968 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd soundcore usb-uhci usb-storage usbcore sd_mod scsi_mod cryptoloop loop lt_serial lt_modem
