[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

Pete Black pete at marchingcubes.com
Mon Dec 20 17:46:35 NZDT 2004


Also, note that recent Debian kernels (they may have fixed it now) are 
broken w/regard to VFAT mounting because they don't have the codepages 
compiled - make sure you compile the codepages along with the vfat 
module or else you will get mount failures.

> The ub driver in 2.6.9 is a piece of shit (pardon the language) it 
> should never have gone into the kernel, hard locks my machine when a 
> USB device is removed,  and fills my logs with spurious error messages.
>
> Recompile your kernel sans ub driver (in block devices->low speed usb 
> device support) if you want to stay sane when dealing with USB 
> peripherals.
>
> Nobody who packaged 2.6.9 with this driver included can have done any 
> testing at all with it, since it is pretty much completely broken on a 
> wide range of systems.
> I guess the Debian maintainers must not be testing as much as they 
> used to.
>
>
>> Here's my dmesg output running 2.6.9 on Ubutu Hoary:
>> (It's a DSE usb watch :-))
>>
>> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
>> SCSI subsystem initialized
>> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
>> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>>  Vendor:           Model:                   Rev: 1.89
>>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
>> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
>> USB Mass Storage support registered.
>> SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
>> sda: Write Protect is off
>> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
>> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>>
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