Hello there, On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Rick Jones wrote:
> I think the problem here is a compatibility issue with this particular piece of > hardware. I have a couple of these, they're EagleTec chipsets, ID 05e3/0702, > rev 2. Mine are bare-bone IDE-to-USB adaptor plugs, but I assume the same chip > has been used in pre-built enclosures. > > I get exactly the same result and error logs as has been discussed, and I'm > running SME server 6.0, which is based on RH with kernel 2.4.20. It's usually > volume reads that seem to fail eventually, writes are OK. > > I experimentally tried a 2.4.25 kernel, but it made no difference. What's > intriguing though is that Knoppix (Debian) running 2.4.20 appears to work. Intriguing indeed. Torsten sent the kernel .config for knoppix 2.4.24 and I did a diff on it with a Slackware 2.4.24 .config that I happen to be using on one of my machines in England. There are 2,403 lines in the diff output, and truckloads of USB differences. :( > I've looked at the 2.4.20 source on debian.org, they have a few patches to USB > code, but I'm not sure if anything is relevant. The changes to usb-ohci.c look > significant, but I didn't think ohci was involved here? Torsten's modprobe output seems to agree with you, it says # lsmod |grep usb usb-storage 65312 0 usbserial 19580 0 (autoclean) (unused) usb-ohci 18664 0 (unused) scsi_mod 97268 6 [sd_mod usb-storage st sr_mod sg ide-scsi] > I also wondered if this thing might need an unusual_dev.h entry, but there's > nothing there. All distros I've looked at have an entry for rev.1 of the chip, > but it doesn't work with rev.2 - completely kills it if enabled. Manufacturers have a habit of making huge changes without telling anyone. :( > I'm not too keen on putting a 2.6 kernel under SME, I suspect there may be > dependencies that could break. I'd really like to know what Debian have done to > get their driver to work :) It's time I bought one of these enclosures and installed Debian on a box... 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
