From John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Compaq R3240, Ubuntu Edgy amd64
I also have an R3240, but I'm running 32-bit Kubuntu because I sick of fighting with browser plugins. :( > I started with Ubuntu Hoary, then Breezy, then Dapper, and now have > Edgy, all 64-bit. I have had a problem since the beginning making > backups to an external USB disk. Whether I use tar, dar or rsync the > computer will lock up somewhere in the middle of the backup. It will > also sometimes lock up when doing a lot of file deletions on the USB > disk, e.g., to delete an old backup set. I don't use rsync to the flash drives ... it reads the entire file and calculates checksums, then updates only the portions that need updating. This means 100% of the file must be read and then some X% must be written. I've figured it's probably faster to just write 100% and be done with it. Note that this could hurt the lifetime of the flash memory, though (they are write-cycle limited). I haven't done any real-world simulations of this to determine the trade-offs. > [ 42.278295] usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper > > So it appears that there may be a problem with ACPI. I am wondering if > the USB driver uses an IRQ that is being shared with something else. I > haven't tried pci=assign-busses or pci=routeirq yet because I thought > I'd ask here first if anyone else has encountered similar problems. I have had the 32-bit Debian kernel (2.6.17) also mention the "pci=assign-busses". The SUSE 10.0 kernel (which I think was 2.6.9, IIRC) never produced that message. I also use an external drive (two, actually; one is 40GB and the other is 20GB) and have not experienced any lockups. And I am always sucking video from my Series2 TiVo, unlocking the mpeg2 stream, then transcoding it to an mpeg4 AVI. These large files (typically about 1.7GB per 2-hours) are then moved back and forth to the USB drives. Long-term storage is on the external drive, but before I take a business trip, I'll copy a few of them back to the internal drive so that I don't need the external hooked up to watch Battlestar Galactica or Heroes or ... However, I _have_ had lockups using the ndiswrapper module, which I noticed you also have installed (it's lucky that you included that line!). I never had a problem under 64-bit SUSE when I grabbed the source for ndiswrapper and built it myself, but I have sporadic lockups whenever I use the wireless under 32-bit Kubuntu. I have not looked into this in detail yet, since I haven't *needed* the wireless, but I will likely start on this problem in the next week or two, as I start traveling again (hotels like wireless, since the infrastructure for it is easier than wired (sigh)). > Any suggestions welcome. Try the "assign-busses" and let us know if that solves the problem. If it doesn't, I'd try leaving out the ndiswrapper and see if that helps. PS: Have you used ndiswrapper on all of your previous installs as well? Has it always been from a binary repository, ie. have you ever built it from source? I wish you the best of luck! -- Frank J. Edwards Edwards & Edwards Consulting, LLC Voice: (813) 996-7954 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large Attachments To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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