On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Klaus Muth wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to read from an Stoneridge Optac Download tool (vend/prod 
> 0x557/0x2008) for this European digital tachograph thing (see e.g. 
> www.digitaltachograph.gov.uk/).
> 
> The Optac tool is recognized correctly by the kernel as mass storage and 
> usb-storage is loaded. Then all goes wrong:

> Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
> Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
> SCSI device sda: 31744 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
> Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
> ------------------
> 
> Under Windows *yuck* (even in a VMware instance) the optac is handled by the 
> standard USBSTOR.dll, no extra driver required. Since we want to use linux 
> (and even launch a project now to get oss for this digital tachograph thing), 
> we are now desperate to get all hardware to work under linux.
> 
> Could somebody please help me to get this thing to work?

A good first step would be to upgrade to a current 2.6 kernel.  There have 
been a _lot_ of changes since 2.4.

Alan Stern


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