On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Wolf Faust wrote: > I still have problems getting external Seagate Freeagent (750GB) > drives autoresume(?) correctly connected to USB. I did test with > 2.6.21rc7, 2.6.18, 2.6.16 with various Intel/Nec/Via based > controllers. > > Seagate Pushbutton (750GB) drives work with 2.6.21rc7 (again), but > the Seagate Freeagent drive (750GB) still fails and I have to "dd" > some blocks in order to start the drive before accessing it again. > Accessing the drive with ext3 while in standby results in the > partition becoming read-only. I have no idea what chip set is used > for the usb->SATA is used in the FreeAgent drives. To make it worse, > the firewire and eSata drivers also have serious problems to > autoresume. So none of the drives interfaces work with > Linux. > > I'm willing to spend some time tracing/fixing the problem, but I'm a > programmer and not a kernel guru ;-) Is somebody working on the > problem already? Is there anything I can do to help trace/debug the > problem in order to fix it? If not, any idea what/where I should > start tracing/looking at in the kernel source code?
You haven't provided a clear description of what the problem is. It would help to see a dmesg log with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG turned on. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
