I got a DSE USB2 PCI (xh9738) card on Saturday and installed it in the St Albans linux repository machine in the hop that people will be able to take their external hard drives or flash drives in and take a copy of what they want.
There have been a few problems with it though. We kept getting this message with one of Raffael's external hard drives: [ 261.828000] hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 4 disabled (The hub and port numbers were variable) This seems to be an oft reported bug in various distros, with no firm fixes. Suggestions ranged from "report it on the kernel mailing list" to "update your kernel" to "it worked fine after a reboot". However I suspect that a kernel update may help, and is unlikely to cause harm. The St Albans machine seems to be unmaintained (or Mandriva is woefully behind the 8 ball in kernel versions!). Its the first time I have used or even seen it. Also the lack of a root password inhibited some debugging, along with the lackof some basic utilities like lsusb (or perhaps its only available to the root user). Thankfully lspci was usable. How about a more modern distro on this machine? -- Nick Rout
