Hi, for some reason the USB port on my Linux box is almost unusable :-(
The story: - I plug in an external harddisk (speaks USB2, but I only have USB1 ports --- don't know whether this matters here) - device is recognized by the kernel, the pseudo-SCSI-device is created - I can mount the disk Now, when I want to remove it again: - Sync - I unmount the disk - Sync again, just in case - I unplug the device The reaction is the following line in syslog: Jun 10 00:50:32 Gatekeeper kernel: uhci.c: d000: host controller halted. very bad After that, when I plug the device back in and mount it the mount locks up in the kernel (kill -9 doesn't help). Don't know whether I could mount other disks; unmounting still seemed to work --- I got a clean shutdown. The box is a 440BX mainboard, running a 2.4.20 kernel, using the "alternate UHCI driver" --- the help item talks about another UHCI driver, but this seems to be another case of the help not being uptodate: I didn't see it. So, the question is: am I doing something wrong (do I need to somehow tell the kernel that I'm going to unplug the device?), or is there a patch for this bug? Back then it looked like a good idea to plug the thing into the server, since 99% of the stuff is going through there anyway atm... Thanks, Christian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
