USB Drivers and the 2.4.19 Kernel
In January, I described a problem I had with an external usb
hard drive on a 266 MHZ Dell Dimension. Any task that generated large
amounts of traffic through the USB port usually ended in a locked-up
system with one or more stuck processes.
The only way to fix it was either a power cycle or a hardware
reset.
After upgrading to a 600-MHZ Dell Dimension, the problems
appeared to just vanish. The new drive worked flawlessly between
January 26 and around the first of April. At that point, the system
started getting stuck and has hung three times in the last month each
time traffic was going to or coming from the external drive.
I think it is timing-related and the thing that has changed is
that the new drive now has about 2 or 3 gigs of data and it takes
longer to find free inodes.
Does anybody know if this problem is documented and whether it
has been corrected since the 2.4.19 kernel?
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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