On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:43:48 +1000, Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with > recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to > perform large transfers (eg 500MB files) to the box it aborts after a > variable proportion of the file/s have been transferred. > > The dmesg output calls it a kernel bug... Google is unhelpful, does > anybody know what this is or where I could go for further assistance. > All the recent kernels versions that I've tried seem affected, from > 2.6.4 through to 2.6.9-rc2. > > Note that the drive works under Windows 2k/XP. Dmesg output is attached, > with the most relevant section directly below.
You're using the VIA chipset on 2.6? - apparently there's still some problems there if that's so. Does the 2.4 kernel have the same problem? How about inserting a new USB controller that doesn't use the VIA chipset? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
