usb 2.0 external hard drive stuck

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-13 09:13, dev.loop at gmail.com whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:51:09 +0200, zelcor <zelcor at free.fr> wrote:
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>>Sep 13 13:34:59 localhost kernel:   Vendor: Genesys   Model: USB to IDE
>>Disk   Rev: 0002
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>The Genesys Chipset caused me some trouble as well and it was very
>similar to your experience.
>I filed it with Bugzilla
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122522 which also
>includes the solution (change a parameter in the kernel source and
>recompile the kernel).
>The big difference is, that I had those problems when running FC1 with
>a 2.4.22 kernel and Pete Zaitcev added a comment to the bug report,
>that FC2 is going to change the necessary parameters, when it detects
>a Genesys Chipset.
>Therefore, I would have guessed, that this is not the cause for your
>problems, but since it sounds very similar, to what I experienced,
>maybe you give a try.
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>>The access LED remains lit on the usb drive 
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>Same here
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>>The usb drive works fine on a window$ box.
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>Same here
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>>If my problem has already been described, please forward me to the right
>>place.
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>Please have a look at
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122522
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>Cheers,
>/dev/loop
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The code is in the current 2.6.8 sources, but there is always the 
possibility that the test for Genesys is failing due to some minor 
changes in what the chipset reports.  I would try hard-coding the limit 
at 120 (60 KB), and commenting out the test, just to see if that works. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
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