On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Oliver Strutynski wrote: > I have a Hama external USB2 HD. I had it running for quite some time with the > SuSE 2.4.x kernels for SuSE 9.0. After upgrading first to 2.6.4 and now to > 2.6.5 (2.6.5-8 SuSE Mantel Kernel) however I see frequent problems when > transferring large amounts of data to or from the HD. The HD works fine for a > while and then seemingly disconnects. To remount the drive I have to unplug > it, unmount the fs, plug in again and re-mount it. Extracts > from /var/log/messages and /proc/usb follow below. > > I have seen some similar reports on this list and the newsgroups and tried to > apply the patch previously posted to usb-devel (change size of transfers to > 64K, .maxsectors=128 in scsiglue.c), with no effect (it seems, as if the > device even disconnects faster). > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, Oliver Strutynski
To get some more useful information, turn on the usb-storage debugging option in your kernel's configuration. That will generate loads of extra debugging messages in the system log. 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
