On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Fonehelp - Mike Yates wrote: > > Eero Volotinen wrote: > > > >>> No, it's a 250Gb Freecom Classic (Hitachi Vendor: HDS72252 Model: > >>> 5VLAT80 inside) but with almost identical errors to yours. > >> > >> > >> Well. I think it has same problem as my drive. It reports blocks wrong. > >> > > Do you mean that the Freecom USB case is wrong > > or that the kernel 2.6.8 module is wrong? > > Well that drive works with 2.6.9rc4mm1 kernel + unusual_devs patch. Not > with 2.6.9rc4 (linus-vanilla) > > But looks that mm1 is not enought stable to use. At least in my system > firefox and mozilla crashes and system sometimes freezes. So need to > wait, maybe bugs are fixed in next release and patch for that drive is > applied to mainstream kernel.
To help clarify things -- the USB case is wrong. The patch enables the kernel to work around the problem. I think the patch will work with the vanilla kernel as well as with the -mm kernel. You can try it and see. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
