On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:24:15PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote: > I'm not sure if this should go here or to -bugs, but the other > USB-related reports put me in good company, I'm hoping... > > I'm having a problem with a Kodak USB flash reader. "camcontrol > inquiry" gives me: > > pass0: <Kodak CF/SD/MMC/SM 0108> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device > pass0: Serial Number > pass0: 1.000MB/s transfers > > The device has printed on it: > > Kodak Multi-Card Reader CE2A012 > KP P/N 7E3771 > ITEM# 20209416 > P/N 680-070-563 > > Reproducibly, if I begin copying data to a Lexar 256MB CF card (P/N > 2250, Rev. A), it works for a while, then freezes the system. The first > time this happened it was when trying to unmount the filesystem. The > second time was in the midst of copying data. Both times the system was > completely frozen; not even the keyboard LEDs toggled. Strangely, I > could connect on the SSH and FTP ports, but received no welcome banner. > > The third time I modified the script I was using to copy my files to > sync and sleep after each file. This time the system seemed to freeze, > then lurch through handling several interrupts (mouse pointer moved and > a menu popped up from right-clicking), then froze again. Initially > connecting to the SSH port brought up the banner after a very long > delay, but an attempt to reproduce this was unsuccessful, and I was > unable to actually SSH in. > > Mounting the filesystem synchronously doesn't seem to help. The first > time it worked, but then when I unmounted and remounted it and copied > some more files it froze midway through. > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3: > > FreeBSD beaker.data-secure.net 5.3-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p8 #1: Mon > Apr 11 15:20:08 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > I will be fairly busy for the next few days but later this week I should > be able to try out patches or set up a machine running a more > cutting-edge source tree, if necessary. I've got FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 > building today, actually; is it likely that this will solve my problem?
It is quite likely that 5.4 fixed your problem. Not certain, of course, but many problems have been fixed recently. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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