On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Peter Santoro wrote: > Below are the results of running my first test (boot PC, login as root, > insert lexar jumpdrive, attempt to mount the vfat formatted device). > When I ran the test on my IBM PC300PL 6862-U8U (500Mhz P3), the mount > command hung for ~30 sec and then the system crashed. When I ran the > test on my home-grown ASUS P3BF system (1400Mhz celeron), the mount > command hung for ~30sec and then completed ok. Subsequent mounts on the > ASUS system were quick. Both systems are running slackware 9.1 with > updates and kernel 2.4.25. The IBM is using hotplug 2004_01_05 and the > ASUS is using hotplug 2003_08_05. Also note that I tried this test on > another IBM PC300PL (different model #, slackware 9.1, kernel 2.4.23, > hotplug 2003_08_05) and had a similar crash. Also note that using a > CompUSA 256MB thumb drive works fine in all these PCs and always mounts > quickly. Maybe there's a hardware (memory?) problem with these IBM > PC300PL machines. The information below is from the IBM PC300PL 6862-U8U:
It looks like the device got sufficiently confused that it disconnected itself from the USB bus. Try turning on usb-storage debugging in the kernel configuration. That will add lots of debugging information to the system log, showing exactly what is happening during the failed mount attempts. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- 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
