[ILUG] A nice linux "friendly" mp3 player

[Justin Mason]

I would try and swap around cables if you can -- if the condition
occurs with all cables/ports, it's likely not a cable issue.

unfortunately I have no idea who can fix the bug, though, since
I'm still in the throes of not having a fix myself :(

--j.

Frank Duignan writes:
> Yep, I noticed some of that traffic when trying to diagnose the problem.
> I'm running 2.6.18.3 which may well contain that buggy usb code.  My reading
> of the situation was that it applies to certain usb chipsets combined with
> certain usb devices.  This may be true as I've got a 2GB flash drive which
> works fine as a usb 2.0 device though I do remember some funnies when I
> connected an external usb2.0 hard disk drive recently.  If it is a bug it is
> certainly repeatable on my setup.  If I was to contact someone about fixing
> it who would you suggest?
> f.
> 
> On 1/3/07, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Josh Glover writes:
> > > On 31/12/06, Frank Duignan <frank.duignan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The only caveat I have may perhaps be just unusual to
> > > > the usb chipset I've got (so google implies).  If you mount the
> > beastie as a
> > > > usb 2.0 device i.e. with the ehci-hcd module loaded it umounts itself
> > after
> > > > a short while - even in the middle of a write.
> > >
> > > I have seen this problem as well. In my case, it turned out to be a
> > > cable that was just ever-so-slightly flakey. If you have a known good
> > > cable (i.e. one that you have tested with other USB 2.0 devices), you
> > > might try that.
> > >
> > > Of course, your situation may be different, but just in case.
> >
> > It looks likely that there's a bug in recent kernels (or Ubuntu-built
> > kernels, at least) in their support for USB hard drives (incl iPods):
> >
> >   http://taint.org/2006/12/13/191554a.html
> >
> > --j.
> >