On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Mike Yates wrote: > I wonder if I should look back at the Morphix (Debian with kernel 2.4) > sources if I can find them? I only have the CD-only binaries, but they > should be archived somewhere at the Morphix site. > > It is very strange that these drives, which work pretty faultlessly in > Windoze, just using the Ms-provided usb-storage drives, and with "some" > kernel 2.4 setups, should fail so dramatically to work with 2.6 kernels.
There have been some pretty extensive changes between 2.4 and 2.6; it's not at all surprising that some devices might not work with the new drivers. Note that the problems Eero is having don't appear to involve usb-storage but rather the lower-level string descriptor routines. > Perhaps the apparent faults in the firmware were "passed over" by "less > fussy" earlier drivers? At this point it's not possible to tell whether the error lies in the device firmware, the device hardware, the computer hardware, or the drivers. About all we do know is that one of the kernels works okay on Eero's system. Since you haven't posted any more details of the verbose debugging log, I can't tell what's happening with your system. > It would be too paranoid to assume that they are deliberate > patent-protection measures, wouldn't it? If they are, they appear to be pretty ineffective considering that the systems work with 2.4 (some of them) and 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 (some of them). > As I said, Freecom Inc do proudly proclaim that they don't support any > Unix, but my Freecom Classic CD-RW (07ab:fccd) has worked in every > kernel setup I've used. I still don't understand what's going on with that product ID. It's exactly the same as Eero's FHD-Classic. Is it possible that this is merely an enclosure with a USB interface, and it can hold any sort of IDE or ATAPI device? 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
