[linux-usb-devel] VT6202(?)

2005-10-09 Thread Nix N. Nix
Hi! I have acquired a PCMCIA CardBus USB2.0 controller. It came with a power cable whose one end plugs into the fat part of the card that sticks out and has the USB plugs on it, and the other end plugs into a USB port. I plugged everything in (the card into the PCMCIA slot and the power adaptor a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: Mobile hdd with usb2.0 interface hangs up after effort to write big file to it.

2004-09-27 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:16, Alan Stern wrote: > > I hope the solution is not controller specific. My friend has a LaCie > > USB 2.0 drive which has the same problem. The relevant lsusb -v section > > is: > The solution isn't controller-specific, but it is vendor-specific. It > applies only to

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: Mobile hdd with usb2.0 interface hangs up after effort to write big file to it.

2004-09-23 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:07, Alan Stern wrote: > This problem was fixed in 2.6.9-rc1. I hope the solution is not controller specific. My friend has a LaCie USB 2.0 drive which has the same problem. The relevant lsusb -v section is: Bus 005 Device 002: ID 059f:0351 LaCie, Ltd Device Descriptor:

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-19 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 08:31, Alan Stern wrote: > > I think I'll simply kluge it: I'll add a line that says "modprobe > > ehci-hcd" to the script responsible for umounting local file systems > > upon shutdown. *shrug* > > No, don't do that! You'll still have unflushed buffers and lack of a > clea

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-18 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 21:18, Alan Stern wrote: > The "known bug" is that when an HCD module is rmmod'ed it doesn't wait for > all the USB device refcounts to go to 0 -- but when they do a routine in > the HCD is called to release some memory. Of course, if the HCD code has > already been unloaded

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-18 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 09:10, Alan Stern wrote: > At any rate, this oops occurs whenever a USB host controller driver is > unloaded while one of the devices it controls is still open. Your drive > was still open because it was mounted, and when the shutdown scripts > unmounted it the oops was tri

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-17 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 08:12, Alan Stern wrote: > > I just finished rebooting and, unfortunately the kernel panic-ed much as > > it did before when the system was going down. > > > That's not much help to anybody. For one thing it's unclear: Did the > kernel panic just as you finished rebooting or

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-16 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 16:06, Nix N. Nix wrote: > I have applied the patch, and now I am able to transfer files as large > as 1.4GB to the drive. I just finished rebooting and, unfortunately the kernel panic-ed much as it did before when the system was going down. Conclusion: Transfe

Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-16 Thread Nix N. Nix
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:39, Alan Stern wrote: > Your problem is that the enclosure was made by Genesys Logic. It was only > very recently that we have been able to get their USB-IDE bridges to work > properly at high speed. The necessary changes aren't in 2.6.8.1, but they > are in 2.6.9-rc1.

[linux-usb-devel] usb_storage crash when writing to USB drive.

2004-09-12 Thread Nix N. Nix
Hi! I recently bought a USB drive enclosure and I'm experiencing the following problem with it: When I try writing to it, there's an I/O error after about 600MB, and the device corresponding to the destination partition (/dev/sda1) disappears from /dev. I'm running kernel 2.6.8.1 (vanilla) on an