Could you turn on USB Mass Storage verbose debugging and send a log of the
simplest case tht does something strange?

Matt

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:18:12PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote:
> I'm using the usb-storage driver to read/write an MMC card using the
> SanDisk ImageMate (SDDR12).  Under kernel 2.4.4, and usb-uhci I'm having
> the following problems:
> 
> * The application hangs when it closes the filehandle.  Currently I
>   fh = open("/dev/sdc", O_RDWR) the device, write a bunch of stuff, and
>   then close(fh).  Upon close the program hangs in the "D" state as
>   reported by ps (forever...).  The program worked with older kernels...
>   The program also works fine if no data is written.
> 
> * When it did work, the close(fh) would also hang for several seconds,
>   but eventually return.  My program transfers files to the MMC, and
>   when transferring the file, the orange light on the device blinks
>   rapidly.  When the transferring is done, and the filehandle is closed,
>   the light on the device turns of for several seconds.  I've tried
>   inserting ioctl(fh, SCSI_IOCTL_SYNC) in several places, but this
>   didn't seem to have any affect.  The amount of time it hung was
>   independent of how much data was transferred, unless no data was
>   written, then there was no hang.
> 
> So in either case it seems like something funny is happening when the
> device is closed, and data was written.  Does anyone have any ideas off
> the top of their heads?  Suggestions as to how I should go about
> tracking this down?
> 
> Does anyone else actually use the SDDR12 under linux, or am I the only
> one?  ;)
> 
> The software in question is mjmmc, part of mj-tools
> (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mj-tools)
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Bob
> 
> Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics



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