ALL NEW INFORMATION: I've done quite a bit of meticulous testing and found out some things that blow parts of my previous mail out of the water.
1) Rebooted my laptop, plugged in the digital camera. Mounted it, copied files to it. Unmounted it, removed the device. Plugged it back in mounted it and my files were there that I had added. (Figured this would work, but you always need a control variable right?) 2) Rebooted my laptop, plugged in my pen drive. Mounted it, copied files to it. Unmounted it, removed the device. Plugged it back in mounted it and my files were there that I had added. (Didn't expect this to work, but now that it does, it points out that there is definitely nothing wrong with my laptop.) 3) Rebooted my laptop, plugged in my watch. Mounted it, copied files to it, got errors, the rest you know from previous emails. (Didn't expect this to work, and I was right.) 3.a) Removed the watch, plugged in my pen cam and it started doing the same thing, actually it wouldn't mount something like every other time, and I had problem writing to it. It was as if using the Watch had caused everything to go wonkey. (Was doubtful this would work, and proved to be correct) 3.b) Removed the pen cam, put in the camera, and it worked no problem. (It was working before so I figured it would remain working.) 4) Rebooted my Linux computer that the watch HAD been working on, and now it won't even mount the thing, gives me a whole new set of errors that I can give you if it's important. It uses ohci instead of uhci. I have yet to make this work again. (This one shocked me. Though I don't know how I got it to work in the first place, at least I have proven the watch is the only real device with an issue.) 5) Plugged the watch into a Windows XP machine. Came up as a drive almost instantly, I opened the new drive it made, copied a few programs like putty.exe into it, removed the device, then plugged it back in and all the files are there. I did the whole right click on the drive and had it scan for bad blocks and whatnot then figured it wouldn't hurt to do a full format, so I wiped it, then copied my putty programs back onto it and removed it again. (A little surprised, yet happy, yet disgusted that it worked here, but I now know the watch at least kind of works.) 6) Moved it to the laptop in question, mounted it. Saw all the new files via ls. Tried to copy putty.exe off of it, and it failed with a IO error on the command line. Unmounted. (Now I can't read from it, but this is what you had assumed would have been the case before so no big surprise for you.) 7) Moved back to the Windows XP machine, it popped open and I saw all my programs. I decided to just make sure that those files weren't corrupt, so I double clicked putty.exe and it pulled up like it should have and I ssh'd to one of my servers. (Well, I am having a hard time believing the 'watch' per say is the problem other than possibly not conforming to the standards which is why the drivers in linux aren't supporting it properly?) So, I suppose the summary is, the watch works in windows, remotely kind of works in uhci, and works fine during the right phase of the moon with additional solar flares on ohci? I believe I saw that there's some kind of handler for devices that don't follow the norms? Is this where you believe my solution may come from? I hope this sheds new light on the problem at hand. Thanks again for the help, Jerry Kilpatrick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
