Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 179658
Genesys usb-storage controller is extremely unstable
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:22 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051203 Description of problem: When attempting to write large quantities of data to my USB HDD, the drive crashes and the EXT3 journal becomes corrupted, and many other Bad Things happen. Please see ftp://tux.go-nix.ca/incoming/genesys.breakage.messages for further information. This does not happen with vanilla 2.6.15 on either ppc (iBook G4) or x86 (2.4GHz Pentium 4) both running Gentoo. In fact, I was able to transfer about 16GB in 3 large bursts without an incident. There were some messages in my syslog, and I /did/ notice that, once in a while, it seemed to stop transferring and let the device "cool down" but at least it knew to do that, instead of killing it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy an enclosure as below 2. Plug a 2.5" HDD into it 3. Transfer tons of data to it, as I did Actual Results: HDD crashes and burns. Expected Results: Files transfer correctly. Additional info: From usbview: USB TO IDE Speed: 480Mb/s (high) USB Version: 2.00 Device Class: 00(>ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 05e3 Product Id: 0702 Revision Number: 0.02 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: c0 MaxPower Needed: 96mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 6 Protocol: 50 Number of Endpoints: 2 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 512 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 02 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 512 Interval: 125us The actual device: http://startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?ProductID=IDECASE25U2&mt= The on-board chip is a GL811USB: http://www.zynet.com.tw/download/data%20sheet/CDHD-R1R2D1D3-U2.pdf
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.