Re: 2.6.9 USB storage problems

[Matthew Dharm]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:40:32PM +0100, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> Am Montag, 1. November 2004 20:10 schrieb Matthew Dharm:
> > You're using the UB driver.  Does it work if you turn that off and use the
> > usb-storage driver instead?
> 
> Damn, you are right - this is a new driver...
> I didn't notice that, i did rely on hotplug to load the correct modules.
> 
> Removed the ub driver and everything is fine now.
> 
> That means - just unloadin ub and loading usb-storage didn't work. 
> 
> I had to remove it from the kernel config and rebuild the modules. Actually 
> usb-storage was the only module being rebuilt. Looks like usb-storage's 
> functionality is different if ub is built.
> 
> So, my system works fine again, thank you.
> But it leaves the question: why does ub perform so badly?

Talk to Pete Zaitcev about that.

> And: could maybe somebody put some hints into the ub help?
> "This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices such as flash 
> keys." didn't sound so bad to me...

That should definately happen.  Along with a note that this blocks
usb-storage from working with many devices if enabled.

Matt

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