usb-storage is unsupported under 2.2.x kernels.

Matt

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:40:06AM +0000, FERME Paul-henri wrote:
> hi
> 
> I am trying to use a brand new USB Iomega 100M ZIP-drive on my linux box  I 
> succeed in mouting and reading the drive but I am getting frequent R/W errors 
> and software freeze which prevent me from using it realibily.
> 
> 
> Hardare is a DFI K6BV3+/66 board  with on-board usb support enabled.
> I am using a 2.2.17 kernel as compiled by Mandrake Soft in its standard 7.1 
> distri. 
> Following modules are loaded successfully at startup (using depmod):
> 
> usb-storage            11568   0  (unused)
> uhci                   18560   0  (unused)
> usbcore                43632   0  [usb-storage uhci]                          
> ../..                                                           
> 
> dmesg ouput during boot is as follows:
> ../..
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 10
> uhci.c: detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> scsi : 1 host.
>   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: 90.J
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> sda : extended sense code = 2
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>  sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> hub.c: already running port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
> usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
> usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2                                            
> ../..                                                           
> 
> Humm obviously not 100p correct but these are warning only aren't they?
> Also the drive produce a pleasant start-up sound obviously loading and 
> reading the disk.
> 
> then I mount the drive with 'mount /mnt/zip'
> Note :/etc/fstab: 
> ../..
> /dev/sda4       /mnt/zip        vfat          nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,exec          
> 0 0 
> ../..
> 
> It seems to work OK with /var/log/messages saying:
> ../..
> Feb  4 22:52:29 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. 
> Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
> Feb  4 22:52:29 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
> Feb  4 22:52:32 localhost kernel:  sda: sda4
> ../..
> 
> Looks good it is indeed a 100MB disk i am using
> 
> But when I use the drive, i get frequent read errors and final freeze.
> I can only trace that to a kernel error message:
> 
> Feb  4 23:01:08 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> 
> After that I cannot access anymore /dev/sda4 and need to reboot.
> 
> So far I did 3 things:
>         0) Connect and check the USB port using a USB webcam: Works OK
>       1) test the drive on a win2000 portable: works OK
>       2) Compile and run kernel 2.2.18 with backport of latest USB drivers as 
> recommended on http://linux.nf/usbzip.html: Same problems R/W errors and 
> hangs-up.
> 
> I am now running out of ideas on this.
> Any suggestion from a helpfull reader?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Paul-Henri FERME
> 
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Matthew Dharm                              Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver

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