Bug#763966: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Fail to write on ext3 filesystem of an external USB hard drive

2014-11-22 Thread Sébastien Helleu
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 01:22:31PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 12:53:29PM +0200, Sebastien Helleu wrote: ** Tainted: I (2048) * Working around severe firmware bug. You may want to search for a fixed firmware, but this may be irrelevant for the current problem.

Bug#763966: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Fail to write on ext3 filesystem of an external USB hard drive

2014-11-15 Thread Jeff DeFouw
I found my drive (Maxtor OneTouch II) is reporting a write cache, which makes the kernel issue SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE requests, but the drive does not support SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE. A change in the 3.16 SCSI layer makes flush errors get processed correctly instead of ignored. I just reported the

Bug#763966: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Fail to write on ext3 filesystem of an external USB hard drive

2014-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 12:53:29PM +0200, Sebastien Helleu wrote: ** Tainted: I (2048) * Working around severe firmware bug. You may want to search for a fixed firmware, but this may be irrelevant for the current problem. ** Kernel log: [...] This log does not show any message similar to

Bug#763966: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Fail to write on ext3 filesystem of an external USB hard drive

2014-10-04 Thread Sebastien Helleu
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm not able to write on my USB external hard drive, which has filesystem ext3. Here are the steps and error messages I got: root@omega:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/lacie No error, mount is OK: root@omega:~# mount