On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Christian Stieber wrote: > Hi, > > for some reason the USB port on my Linux box is almost unusable :-( > > The story: > - I plug in an external harddisk (speaks USB2, but I only have USB1 ports --- > don't know whether this matters here) > - device is recognized by the kernel, the pseudo-SCSI-device is created > - I can mount the disk > > Now, when I want to remove it again: > - Sync > - I unmount the disk > - Sync again, just in case > - I unplug the device > > The reaction is the following line in syslog: > Jun 10 00:50:32 Gatekeeper kernel: uhci.c: d000: host controller halted. very bad > > After that, when I plug the device back in and mount it the mount locks up in > the kernel (kill -9 doesn't help). Don't know whether I could mount other > disks; unmounting still seemed to work --- I got a clean shutdown. > > The box is a 440BX mainboard, running a 2.4.20 kernel, using the "alternate > UHCI driver" --- the help item talks about another UHCI driver, but this > seems to be another case of the help not being uptodate: I didn't see it.
It is still there. Did you have one compiled into the kernel? > So, the question is: am I doing something wrong (do I need to somehow tell > the kernel that I'm going to unplug the device?), or is there a patch for > this bug? Back then it looked like a good idea to plug the thing into > the server, since 99% of the stuff is going through there anyway atm... > > Thanks, > Christian > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay > Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: > http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
