On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jan De Luyck wrote: > Hello lists, > > (a mail for the archives) > > I've posted in the past about problems with these enclosures - increasing the > delay seems to fix it, albeit temporarily. The further you go in using the > disk in such an enclosure, the higher the udelay() had to be - atleast that's > what I'm seeing here (I've got two of these now :/ ) > > One permanent fix is adding a powered USB-hub in between the drive enclosures > and the computer. Since I've done that, I've no longer seen any of the > problems (i've attached the 'fault' log). Weird but true, since the drives > come with their own powersupply. > > Hope this helps anyone in the future running into the same problem.
This one certainly goes into the Bizarro file. Just out of curiosity -- when you use the powered hub, does the drive work even if you remove that delay completely? Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
