Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 7:59 am, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > > I have a MAGNEX/ViPower USB/FirWire external HD enclosure. I > > found that it works pretty fine (albeit slowly) when connected > > to the USB 1.1 ports built in my Dell Inspiron 8200, but trying > > to

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:15 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > And I didn't see an "unusual_devs.h" entry for it, but it does > look to need the CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e support, which I > see is labeled "experimental". I don't know how solid the > support for that is. But I see Greg's checked in

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 06 February 2005 6:55 pm, Rusty Russell wrote: > Device Descriptor: > bLength18 > bDescriptorType 1 > bcdUSB 2.00 > bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level) > bDeviceSubClass 0 > bDeviceProtocol 0 > bMaxPack

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 06 February 2005 7:59 am, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > I have a MAGNEX/ViPower USB/FirWire external HD enclosure. I > found that it works pretty fine (albeit slowly) when connected > to the USB 1.1 ports built in my Dell Inspiron 8200, but trying > to connect it via the Hamlet PCMCIA U

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:41 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 4:16 am, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? > > I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some > hardware configs and not others. Many folk report no prob

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
John Stoffel wrote: > > I haven't tried lately, but my USB/FireWire enclosure never worked > with Linux (or WinNT under firewire, sigh...) so I haven't touched it > in months. Money down the drain. I have a MAGNEX/ViPower USB/FirWire external HD enclosure. I found that it works pretty fine (alb

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread John Stoffel
>> Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? David> I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some David> hardware configs and not others. Many folk report no problems; David> a (very) few report nothing but. This is just a chime in to let people know others are seeing probl

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:55 pm, Alan Stern wrote: > > The most likely explanation seems to be hardware problems. Particularly > for high-speed USB devices, 2.6 drives the hardware much closer to the > limit than 2.4 or Windows (to judge by the problem reports we've seen). Agreed ... thoug

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Rusty Russell wrote: > OK, I recently made the mistake of buying a USB case with a drive in it > and putting my home directory on it. I have since then had multiple > ext3 and ext2 errors: 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3 all exhibit > the problem within an hour of stress (

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 04 February 2005 4:16 am, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some hardware configs and not others. Many folk report no problems; a (very) few report nothing but. If you've verified this on 2.