Re: USB Mass Storage Hangs

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 00:51:59 EST


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:38:16AM -0500, Stephen Marz wrote:
> This message regards the USB mass storage driver for kernel version
> 2.4.18-10:
>
> On my Dell Inspiron 7500 I have an adaptec USB 2.0 cardbus
> adapter. I plugged in a 120GB hard drive and the mass
> storage driver in linux detects it and runs it fine. The
> problem comes in when I try to also plug in my CD-RW into
> the cardbus adapter (it has two USB 2.0 ports). The mass
> storage driver will detect and gather information about
> the drive, however it doesn't take more than two or
> three minutes before the entire system hangs. The kernel
> immediately drops all knowledge of any USB device on
> my system.
>
> Anybody else notice this problem?

Is there a kernel oops anywhere?
And are both of these devices USB 2.0 devices? If so, you might want to
try the 2.4.20-pre kernels, it has much better USB 2.0 support than the
kernel you are using.

thanks,

greg k-h
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