Bug 437657 - USB card reader does not work
Summary: USB card reader does not work
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-15 20:34 UTC by Pavel Rosenboim
Modified: 2008-06-17 03:03 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 03:03:52 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
kernel messages log (32.71 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-15 20:34 UTC, Pavel Rosenboim
no flags Details
usbmon log (459.02 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-15 20:35 UTC, Pavel Rosenboim
no flags Details

Description Pavel Rosenboim 2008-03-15 20:34:24 UTC
Description of problem:
I have some generic USB combo hub + card reader. Under linux, I'm unable to
mount any card I tried. According to dmesg output, after I insert a card into
reader, kernel periodically resets it. This happens in both F7 latest kernel and
in latest rawhide kernel.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.17-82.fc7
kernel-2.6.25-0.101.rc4.git3.fc9

How reproducible:
Always.

USB log and messages log attached

Comment 1 Pavel Rosenboim 2008-03-15 20:34:24 UTC
Created attachment 298162 [details]
kernel messages log

Comment 2 Pavel Rosenboim 2008-03-15 20:35:57 UTC
Created attachment 298163 [details]
usbmon log

Comment 3 Pete Zaitcev 2008-03-16 00:34:05 UTC
This is a very good log, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do
about this. The device works fine at first and reports missing media.
Then, just out of the blue, it stops replying to the request to transfer
the 13-byte status block (it's the -84: EILSEQ: 3-try token timeout
or CRC error). This is a low-level USB protocol violation,
which should never happen. After that the device performs all control
transations, accepts SCSI commands, but (mostly) fails on getting
responses just like before. It's possible that it becomes this way
when a card is inserted.

Maybe it wants a delay before a status request, I don't know. The
longest gap before the failing transfer is 9ms.

I would also try a CF card. Maybe the internal firmware gets into
a loop when it has to run bit-bang control for serial interface
carts.

In any case, clearly something is buggy here, we're looking for
workarounds.

Comment 4 Pavel Rosenboim 2008-03-16 06:41:20 UTC
Actually, it was a CF card. Other cards - SD and M2 - behave the same way. 

Comment 5 Pavel Rosenboim 2008-03-16 17:47:56 UTC
Just tried it in Ubuntu 7.10 liveCD and it works there(kernel
2.6.22-14-generic). Only getting few I/O errors during large file copy.

Comment 6 Pete Zaitcev 2008-03-16 20:24:01 UTC
Maybe they applied US_FL_GO_SLOW and it worked, who knows. It's a major
pain to liberate fixes hidden in Ubuntu.

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 15:22:58 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 03:03:50 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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