On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:02, Stew Benedict wrote:
<snip>
>
> Still sounds to me like hotplug and friends. Before I told you
> how to disable hotplug with chkconfig, but I didn't mention
> stopping the service (service hotplug stop).
>
> It's quite rare in my experience that the kernel itself would be
> thrashing the machine like that. If it is, you'd see dmesg
> flooded with messages, but more often you'd see an oops or panic.
>
> I'd also doubt udev as a major factor. The normal "problem" with
> udev is the device not showing up at all in /dev.
>
> I tried several external devices yesterday, as a quick test. My
> Canon camera, which the kernel saw but didn't recognize as a
> storage device, a usb CF reader, a USB SD reader, and an external
> USB hard-drive. In none of the cases, did the kernel give any
> indication it was aware of the actual media type, aside from the
> identifier string of the reader device, that's pretty much the
> reader's job the deal with the media.
</snip>
Well Stew, stopping hotplug doesn't make any difference. But maybe
the solution is closing in, please see my last post.
Thanks
Kaj Haulrich.
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