Merge bugs 358913 and 359207 ?

2006-03-28 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Another user submitted the same bug (358913) [1] as me (359207) [2] I wasn't sure about the severity level : he used "normal" and I used "important". Perhaps it should be "normal" for both? I think the two bug reports should be merged (with same severity). As I dont know how I could do this, cou

Bug#358913: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: USB flash stick created on Macintosh doesn't work

2006-03-27 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Andrew Moise wrote: > When I plug in a flash stick that my roommate has filled with stuff > using his Macintosh computer, it doesn't work. Windows reads the > stick. Here's what happens when I put in the stick: > (...) > Mar 20 21:01:24 localhost vmunix: sda: [CUMANA/ADFS] sda1<5>sd 0:0:0:0:

Bug#359207: Cant use some USB keys because of CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA

2006-03-27 Thread Christophe Chisogne
I forgot an important URL in my bug report : it's where I found the solution to my problem. Here it is. Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4054] Linux partition table reading http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.2/0543.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Bug#359207: Cant use some USB keys because of CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA

2006-03-27 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 Version: 2.6.16-2 Severity: important If I use the standard unstable kernel packages (linux-image-2.6.{15,16}-1-686), I can't use my USB key. There are messages in syslog like the line below, then a bunch of "Buffer I/O error on device sda1". "sda: [CUMA

Re: Some USB key cant be used on 2.6.15/16 : avoid CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA ?

2006-03-23 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Christophe Chisogne wrote: > # grep CUMANA /boot/config-2.6.{15,16}-1-686 > /boot/config-2.6.15-1-686:CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA=y > /boot/config-2.6.16-1-686:CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA=y I rebuild a custom kernel, mainly disabling CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CU

Some USB key cant be used on 2.6.15/16 : avoid CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA ?

2006-03-23 Thread Christophe Chisogne
I've got a problem (Debian unstable) with linux kernel packages linux-image-2.6.{15,16}-1-686 : I can't use my USB key. In the syslog, I found this SCSI device sda: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda:

Bug#352972: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: fail to use udma with intel

2006-02-21 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Frederik Schueler a écrit : > Can you please have a look at the bios settings if this is correct? Yes, I didnt change any BIOS settings since 2003. I checked them, of course, but they were correct. The error message was irrelevant. The real problem was that the ICH4 Intel chipset appeared to late

Bug#352972: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: fail to use udma with intel

2006-02-21 Thread Christophe Chisogne
I dont know what exactly was the problem, but it is now fixed for me. Anyway, thanks to the magic voodoo that helped me :-) Here are the relevant commands I used between reboots. vim /etc/modules # added piix near the top depmod -a aptitude install yaird depmod -a dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2

Bug#352972: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: fail to use udma with intel

2006-02-21 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Same problem here with linux-image 2.6.15-6. Performance is quite horrible without my usual UDMA ide settings. Launching bonnie++ means a 10.0+ load ! # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) # uname -a L