On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Andre Dubuc wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Well, I've had two *delightful* experiences with USB 2.0 on two separate 
> machines, with two different USB 2.0 cards using two different USB Logitech 
> mice.
> 
> Machines: AMD K6-500 and AMD Duron 800 
> (used mouse + Lexmark C510 at 2.0 on the Duron - works beautifully.)
> OS: Mandriva 2006 - kernel 2.6.12
> Bootloader: LILO
> 
> On either machine:
> After about an hour, the mouse froze as well as the desktop. Rebooted: worked 
> for a few minutes, then froze again. Then what really disturbed me: I 
> couldn't boot in again - the root was trashed. Forced a re-install in one 
> case, and an update/re-install bootloader in the other.
> 
> I'm afraid to use the USB 2.0 card if it's going to wipe out my system again. 
> While the machines still could boot, I watched the screen output - and OHCI, 
> UHCI, and EHCI all loaded correctly. On the last attempt - just before it 
> trashed my root - I had removed the USB 2.0 card and reverted to 1.1. On 
> reboot, nothing showed up. Rebooted again, and goodbye root. Dmesg after 
> re-install showed nothing abnormal.
> 
> My question: has anyone else experienced this? Is there a problem/workaround 
> that addresses this? Help?

Out of curiosity, what makes you think this problem has anything to do 
with the USB 2.0 card?  Especially since your filesystem got wiped out 
when the card wasn't installed?

Alan Stern



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