I just purchased a new system. It has a MSI KT3 Ultra2 KT333 Socket A Mainboard, an AMD Athlon 2100+ processor and a 80mb Western Digital drive. I've loaded Phoebe for testing. In general, things look good. The primary problem I'm having is when I copy files from an Iomega USB 2 Hard drive to my home directory, the copy sometimes locks up. When it locks up, I can still perform other system functions, but cannot kill the copy and cannot browse the usb hard drive. I've done a <CTRL><ALT><F1>, logged in as root and executed "halt". The system won't shutdown though, because it says /home is busy and can't be unmounted. I've had to turn the power off to finish the shutdown. I can do this while testing, but would rather not when I make the system my primary computer.
I searched google and found that there are some USB 2 issues with kernels prior to 2.4.21-pre3, in particular with the VIA USB controller. My primary question is: Is there a way I can force a clean shutdown when unmount won't? 2nd question is: Does anybody know if Redhat will be incorporating the USB fixes in 8.1 final? Arnold Weekley -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
