On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, > > the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is > > the culprit. I'm going to buy a new enclosure. > > Can you provide these details (forward what Paul sent you, etc.)? It > would be nice to have this info somewhere in the archives in case > someone mails about similar...
Here it is; > I don't have your original posting, so I don't know what model of > chipset you have, though I do dimly recall it being a Prolific, which is > why I thought I'd e-mail you. Given that the PL3507 had an early > history of problems when writing to it using large transfers (and that > GELI uses large transfers, IIRC), and you say that enclosure is old, you > might want to see if chipset bugs are the source of your problem. > > Here is a link I had bookmarked when I was looking for firmware updates for > the Prolific PL3507: > http://missig.org/julian/blog/2004/06/10/prolific-pl3507-firewire-device/ > > Here is a link to the corruption issue that plagued various chipsets, > including the Prolific PL3507: > http://www.bustrace.com/delayedwrite/index.htm -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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