Re: USB 2.0 mass storage problem

[Måns Rullgård]

"Francis, Chong Chan Fai" <francis.ccf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have my laptop installed with Fedora Core (Kernel 2.4.22), and I want to
> use a USB 2.0 120G hard drive via a Cardbus USB2.0 adaptor.
> I plug the Cardbus card, and then the USB2.0 HD, (after a few config) linux
> recognize my HD and I can use mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/extra to mount it.
>
> HOWEVER, the disk fail after a few read or write operation.

[...]

> The same hardware work perfectly in Windows 2000, It works too when I
> connect the USB to a USB1.0 port in my machine, so I'm quite sure it is the
> problem with the ehci-hcd driver.

This looks like the drive is using a buggy Genesys USB-to-IDE bridge.
Run lsusb and check.  There was a workaround kernel patch floating
around here about a month ago.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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