On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ylan Segal wrote: > You are, of course, right. The kernel I used was my old one, although I > don't know why the changes didn't take. I did a clean make of the > kernel, with the new options and your patch. The hub now works. Thanks. > One down, one to go. > > Is it ok if I submit your patch to the ubuntu kernel mainteners / > developers so that can include it in their next release of 2.6.15 kernel > (they are supposed to support that kernel for 3 years!)?
Yes, certainly it's okay. > > Also, you don't need to post the entire dmesg log starting from boot-up. > > It will be enough to include only the messages starting from when you plug > > in the iPod. (Use "dmesg -c >/dev/null" to clear the log buffer before > > plugging in the iPod.) > > OK, sorry about that. It is not always obvious to me what info might be > useful. The dmesg output with the debug flags is, obviously, very > verbose, and dmesg give me only(!) the last 123 Kbs of the output. I am > attaching about 20 lines before and after one of the errors when trying > to read data off the ipod. > > Again, I appreciate the help: > > ---- > [17180495.032000] usb-storage: Issuing auto-REQUEST_SENSE ... > [17180495.036000] usb-storage: -- Result from auto-sense is 0 > [17180495.036000] usb-storage: -- code: 0xf0, key: 0x3, ASC: 0x11, ASCQ: 0x0 > [17180495.036000] usb-storage: Medium Error: Unrecovered read error That appears to be pretty clear. The iPod is saying that it can't read a sector. Now, perhaps it's deceiving us and the real problem is something else, but for now we ought to take the device at its word. It may actually have some bad sectors. I can't tell exactly what happened after that. The log itself was missing some lines (too much going by too quickly for you to capture all of it) and you didn't provide enough of the context following the error. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users