Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ingo van Lil wrote: > I just remembered something else: The player's manual told me to add > these lines to unusual_devs.h: > > UNUSUAL_DEV (0x09bc, 0x0003, 0x, 0x, >"PONTIS", >"SP600", >US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL, >US_

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ingo van Lil wrote: > I just found a forum comment (unfortunately in german) of somebody > reporting the same problems (I/O errors and slow transfer) with his > SP600: > http://www.ponpio.de/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1604 > > I'll try contacting the Pontis suppo

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-07 Thread Ingo van Lil
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:37:41PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > In spite of the fact that transfers under Windows worked okay, I wonder if > there isn't something wrong with your device. It might be that Windows > and Linux stress the hardware in different ways, because of different > timings for e

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-07 Thread Ingo van Lil
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:37:41PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Those 30-second delays were probably device resets, indicating that > something else was going wrong. This really feels like a hardware > problem. Software problems are generally (but not always!) more > consistent. I just found a fo

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ingo van Lil wrote: > Oh, I did that already: The corrupted blocks seem to be scattered > randomly. Even when I'm copying from /dev/zero the result is always > different. The number of bytes to be written before any I/O errors > appear isn't constant either. > > To make things

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-06 Thread Ingo van Lil
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:55:16PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > A standalone USB 2.0 card writer worked in both Linux and Windows. Since > > these things are pretty cheap I'm probably gonna buy one myself and use > > it to write files to my MP3 player. > > I take it that you're not interested in

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-06 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Ingo van Lil wrote: > OK, I now had the chance to test the device on my father's laptop > (which, other than my PC, has a VIA chipset and therefore uses the > usb-uhci module): In SuSE 9.0 it showed exactly the same problems as on > my system (additional 0x40 bytes, I/O errors

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-06 Thread Ingo van Lil
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:24:14PM +0200, Ingo van Lil wrote: > > Can you try using a different computer but the same OS (Knoppix, for > > example)? That would tell whether your hardware was at fault. > > Not today, but I'm gonna be able to try several other PCs in the next > few days. I'll kee

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-05 Thread Ingo van Lil
On 04 Jun 2004, Alan Stern wrote: > That's a very interesting problem. Have you tried using Linux 2.6? Installed it today (compiled from unpatched 2.6.6 sources). Same effect. BTW, I found another problem: I can't access the entire 256 MB of the CF card. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1" leads to I

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ingo van Lil wrote: > Hello there, > > I described my problem to Matthew Dharm (author of usb-storage) and he > asked me to take it here. I'm trying to make a Pontis SP 600 MP3 player > work with my Gentoo system. It basically appears to work, the device is > listed in /proc/s

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-04 Thread Ingo van Lil
On 04 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > After copying there's an extra 0x40 byte that doesn't belong there at > > the beginning of the block. [] > > > My system: > > Mentioning the kernel version might be useful. I thought so, that's why I did. ;-) Anyway, once again and in more detail: [EMAIL

Re: [linux-usb-devel] SiS chipset and Pontis SP 600

2004-06-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:14:08 +0200 Ingo van Lil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the data is intact, but every now and then a 64 byte block is > corrupted, just like in this example: > After copying there's an extra 0x40 byte that doesn't belong there at > the beginning of the block. [] > My