From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:06:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:06:40 -0400 Received: from mail.loewe-komp.de ([62.156.155.230]:9487 "EHLO mail.loewe-komp.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:06:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF4E0E0.9090001@loewe-komp.de> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:08:32 +0200 From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=E4chtler?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski CC: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre9, still USB freeze In-Reply-To: <20020529145010.21d01e80.skraw@ithnet.com> <3CF4DDE8.1020305@loewe-komp.de> <20020529155849.357ee2b1.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:55:52 +0200 > Peter Wächtler wrote: > > >>Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>as noted for pre8, pre9 freezes still, when connecting a sandisk SDDR-05 to >>>USB(only device attached), and trying to mount some compact-flash. Or, as >>>an alternative test, even with no compact flash inserted, when starting up >>>xcdroast. Both completely freezes the machine. >>> >>>pre6 was ok. >>> >>> >>Is that on a SMP machine? >> > > Yes, this is SMP (Asus CUV4X-D, via chipset), dual PIII. > > >>I think usb-storage is not completely SMP safe. >>I had occasional lockups on SMP - since I connected the readers to UP >>I had no single lockup. At work I do write a lot of compactflashes. >> > > Interestingly everything works well with pre6, whereas pre8 and pre9 _always_ > freeze. > I let my SMP box run overnight. WHEN there was a crash when writing CF (perhaps every 2 weeks or so), THEN I got sometimes BIG problems with writing even after a reboot - locked up again immediatly. IIRC my workaround was to remove the modules and load them again before using them. Yes, sounds weird. I tried to analyse the problem but gave up. I used usb-uhci on 2.4.9 to 2.4.18-SuSE