Bug #105871 High speed USB storage device with low data rates
It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared. There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.
Basil Chupin wrote:
It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared.
There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs).
What you can do, is manually mount the drive, without the sync option.
James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs).
What you can do, is manually mount the drive, without the sync option.
Hey James an Basil; I am very good luck with SuSE10 Beta 4 and the auto mounnting of my old 16G Hard disk in a USB shell. It does require one thing to work correctly. That is leave it ON with a ext3 partition. You might take a look at the drives info with. "/sbin/getcfg -d . -f hwcfg- -- /dev/sda" assuming it is "sda" -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb@hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316
James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared.
There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs).
What you can do, is manually mount the drive, without the sync option.
Thanks James, but :-[ what is the sync option and how do I indicate that I don't want it? Actually, can you help with this? The fix to make USB "sticks" to work at a fast speed is below (this goes into a file and into a special directory). The parameter "==UUID==" in line 7 below is the ID of the "stick" and is obtained from the output of lshal. Now, lshal will also give the IDs of the 3 partitions of the external HD I attach. It sounds logical to me that if one could EXPAND what is in line 7 to also check for additional UIDs then whatever USB devices that *I* may attach would work at the fast speed. The question therefore is, what does one add to line 7 to include the volume.uuid strings of the other USB devices? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <!-- disable sync for mount --> <match key="block.is_volume" bool="true"> <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem"> <match key="volume.uuid" string="==UUID=="> <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge> </match> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> I have to add this at this stage: accessing the HD is faster than accessing the "stick" but not as fast as when used with v9.3 (or Windows). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.
Basil Chupin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared.
There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs).
What you can do, is manually mount the drive, without the sync option.
Thanks James, but :-[ what is the sync option and how do I indicate that I don't want it?
Actually, can you help with this? The fix to make USB "sticks" to work at a fast speed is below (this goes into a file and into a special directory). The parameter "==UUID==" in line 7 below is the ID of the "stick" and is obtained from the output of lshal.
Now, lshal will also give the IDs of the 3 partitions of the external HD I attach. It sounds logical to me that if one could EXPAND what is in line 7 to also check for additional UIDs then whatever USB devices that *I* may attach would work at the fast speed. The question therefore is, what does one add to line 7 to include the volume.uuid strings of the other USB devices?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <!-- disable sync for mount --> <match key="block.is_volume" bool="true"> <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem"> <match key="volume.uuid" string="==UUID=="> <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge> </match> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
I have to add this at this stage: accessing the HD is faster than accessing the "stick" but not as fast as when used with v9.3 (or Windows).
Has there been a proper fix for this problem? It would be nice, to not have to specify each device we want to write to.
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James Knott