On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > 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 [...] > > 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?
FWIW, I picked up a 160GB USB2 hard drive a month ago and have been using it to backup my machine (kernel 2.6.8-rc2, VIA VT82C686 south bridge) without any problems. This would either have to be a regression or there's more to the initial poster's problem. -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
