Dan, I found a message that I posted twice before that might be of assistance. I've copied it below. I continue to have decent success following this procedure, but not perfect. Mandrake disconnected my drive a couple days ago after working well for about a week. Although I don't mention it below, I was also experiencing file corruption when I copied to/from the SmartMedia card. That also seems to have gone away with this fix. I'm pretty much a Linux novice, but the fact that my USB problems greatly diminished after the procedure below leads me to believe that there is some destructive interaction amongst modules (since the procedure below eliminates modules from initrd.) Good luck.
------------ Well, be warned that I don't really know what I'm doing. My issue seems only tangentially related to yours so feel free to discard this info. I have an external SanDisk SDDR-75 USB dual-format memory card reader (Compact Flash/Smart Media). I found under both RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9, whenever I looked at a JPEG file on a SmartMedia card in the SanDisk via a browser, the SmartMedia card would get disconnected - the light for the card would go out, but the power light would stay on. Normally, this would lock up my entire system - only a hard reset would work. Now, in a totally different problem, RedHat 8.0 didn't install an SMP kernel on my dual Pentium MMX system. Following a lead on a RedHat forum, I downloaded an errata SMP kernel and installed it. Now I had a problem in that my SanDisk was getting mounted *before* my real SCSI drives, messing up device assignment and making the system unbootable. I followed the directions here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77244 and this accomplished two things: (1) it stopped the SanDisk from getting mounted before my SCSI hard drives (2) it has stopped my memory card from getting disconnected after an access Maybe this will help you. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
