Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-26 Thread Noone Nowhere
Hello again Alan, we read that the patch broke. Damn, our fear was justified. If we are right, it will break again because it affects various devices using different busses, each one with its limitations and defects. That's why we wrote to Sarah(and got no reply yet) that vendors should fix their

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: Hello again Alan, we read that the patch broke. What patch? The one that works around the Intel/AMD hardware problem? Yes, it had a mistake, which has now been fixed. (Although the fix has not yet been released in a 3.8.stable kernel.) Damn, our

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-19 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: That depends on where the bug is. If it is in the stick then testing a different brand of flash drive would help. Does it need an unusual dev entry to limit max sectors? It is the first USB stick that arrived here back in 2003(?) and uses SLC

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-18 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: I can't fix the block count issue. That's not a bug in the program; it's a bug somewhere else. Who can fix it? Should we test another stick? That depends on where the bug is. If it is in the stick then testing a different brand of flash drive

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Noone Nowhere
Hello Alan again, we will clear things up. Sorry for the late reply, dark forces delayed us. Intel probably doesn't care, because they don't make the affected chipsets any more. I don't know what AMD is currently making. Do you? Yes we do. One of our ICH5 board uses ICH5 with SL7YC SL spec,

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Noone Nowhere
Hello ,here are the logs from the failing EHCI hosts(chipset-SL Spec/revision@mainboard-system): ICH4-SL66K@FIC VC37 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: Hello Alan again, we will clear things up. Sorry for the late reply, dark forces delayed us. Intel probably doesn't care, because they don't make the affected chipsets any more. I don't know what AMD is currently making. Do you? Yes we do.

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: USB stick on 12 different EHCI USB hosts. On VT8235M it took ages to go to 1000. A human readable timestamp could be used. Evidently the VT8235M is very slow for some of the operations used by the test program. To sum up printing a start up message

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: Hello ,here are the logs from the failing EHCI hosts(chipset-SL Spec/revision@mainboard-system): ICH4-SL66K@FIC VC37 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-15 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:08:12AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: Hello Alan again, we will clear things up. Sorry for the late reply, dark forces delayed us. Intel probably doesn't care, because they don't make the affected chipsets any more.

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-12 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Noone Nowhere wrote: Hello Alan this is VoRTeX from the linux kernel ata wiki, greetings from the occupied Greece...Nick uses UNIX since 2003 (FreeBSD back then...5.2.1) and after all these years is an expert in Linux and in HDDs. In 2008 a repeated silent data

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-08 Thread Roger Quadros
On 03/04/2013 05:36 AM, Ming Lei wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu wrote: I'd be interested to hear the results of testing on a variety of controllers. (This computer also has an NEC EHCI controller, and that one does not have the bug.) Do the

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Roger Quadros wrote: On 03/04/2013 05:36 AM, Ming Lei wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu wrote: I'd be interested to hear the results of testing on a variety of controllers. (This computer also has an NEC EHCI

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-06 Thread Bo Shen
Hi Matthieu, On 3/5/2013 16:52, Matthieu CASTET wrote: Do you know which vendor did the ehci IP that is in your atmel SOC. I am sorry, I don't know the vendor of the ehci IP. Best Regards, Bo Shen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-usb in the body of a message

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-05 Thread Matthieu CASTET
Bo Shen a écrit : Hi Alan, On 3/4/2013 23:16, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Bo Shen wrote: Hi Alan, On 02/26/2013 04:54 AM, Alan Stern wrote: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-05 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Lan Tianyu wrote: Ok apply it. Retest. No problem. The following log only takes place When I stop ehci-test or unplug device during test. [ 140.871303] ehci-pci :00:1a.0: shutdown urb 88014545f0c0 ep1in-bulk [ 140.878231] ehci-pci :00:1a.0: shutdown urb

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Lan Tianyu
2013/2/26 Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. Now I

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Ming Lei wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu wrote: I'd be interested to hear the results of testing on a variety of controllers. (This computer also has an NEC EHCI controller, and that one does not have the bug.) Do the

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Bo Shen wrote: Hi Alan, On 02/26/2013 04:54 AM, Alan Stern wrote: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Lan Tianyu wrote: Test on the Sandybridge platform. At the first time, I get following output. But after that, I was hard to get any output. And test on the v3.8. You have to unplug the flash drive after running the test each time. By the way, be sure to apply Clemens

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Frank Schäfer
Am 25.02.2013 21:54, schrieb Alan Stern: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. Now I have

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Sch�fer wrote: Here is the result of your test procedure (fix applied, running kernel 3.9-rc1) for the following device: 00:02.1 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller [10de:03f2] (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-04 Thread Bo Shen
Hi Alan, On 3/4/2013 23:16, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Bo Shen wrote: Hi Alan, On 02/26/2013 04:54 AM, Alan Stern wrote: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-03 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: At any rate, if you're interested in finding out what the problem might be, the best place to start would be with a usbmon trace. ehci-test: 8801e96c06c0 2335244662 S Bo:1:018:1 -115 31 = 55534243 6500 0400 0a28

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-03 Thread Ming Lei
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu wrote: I'd be interested to hear the results of testing on a variety of controllers. (This computer also has an NEC EHCI controller, and that one does not have the bug.) Do the EHCI controllers on current Intel chipsets

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-03 Thread Bo Shen
Hi Alan, On 02/26/2013 04:54 AM, Alan Stern wrote: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. I

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Alan Stern wrote: Then plug in an ordinary USB flash drive and run the attached program (as root), giving it the device path for the flash drive as the single command-line argument. For example: sudo ./ehci-test

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Alan Stern wrote: Then plug in an ordinary USB flash drive and run the attached program (as root), giving it the device path for the flash drive as the single command-line argument. For example: sudo

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Bjørn Mork
Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu writes: A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. Just tested on my (almost as old) laptop with Intel

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Transcend JetFlash: ./ehci-test /dev/bus/usb/001/007 URB timed out; bug may be present URB timed out; bug may be present URB timed out; bug may be present URB timed out; bug may be present ... All three devices on the same system with an

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Bjørn Mork wrote: Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu writes: A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. Just

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-03-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: But the timed out messages come regularly every two seconds, which appears to indicate that the test program doesn't manage to do what it wants to do. Possibly. The program uses a 2-second timeout, which explains the regular

Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Stern
Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite true. Now I have figured out a simple way for anyone to test

Re: Testing for hardware bug in EHCI controllers

2013-02-25 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:54:22PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: Sarah (and anyone else who's interested): A while ago I wrote about a hardware bug in my Intel ICH5 and ICH8 EHCI controllers. You pointed out that these are rather old components, not being used in current systems, which is quite