Problem with external USB harddrive and Suse 9.1

Tommy_Taifun · 04-30-2004, 02:45 AM

Hi,

I got a problem with my external USB harddiskdrive (30GB hitachi with Cytronix hdd controler [Ali m5621 chipset]). I just installed Suse 9.1 (kernel 2.6.4-52) on two computers and with both I get the same result. When I plug the drive in, it's being recognized by the computer (seen in USBview an /etc/mtab) but when I try to access the drive the application I use habgs until I unplug the drive. Maybe I need to say tha Suse 9.1 uses submount. Oh, and sometimes after half an hour a konqueror window pops up showing the drive correctly. Than I can use the drive for some seconds before it crashes again. I will attach my /proc/bus/usb/device and /etc/mtab file. I really hope some could help me. The drive worked fine with Suse 9.0
Bye,
TommyT

/etc/mtab

Code:

/dev/hda7 / reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr,commit=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda8 /windows/E vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder subfs ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb-storage-odd-0x0402-0x5621:0:0:0p1 subfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0

/proc/bus/usb/devices_please-use-sysfs-instead

Code:

T:  Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc= 11/900 us ( 1%), #Int=  1, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.4-52-default ohci_hcd
S:  Product=OHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:03.2
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=046d ProdID=c00e Rev=11.10
S:  Manufacturer=Logitech
S:  Product=USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 98mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   4 Ivl=10ms

T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.4-52-default ohci_hcd
S:  Product=OHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:03.1
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.4-52-default ohci_hcd
S:  Product=OHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:03.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6
B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.4-52-default ehci_hcd
S:  Product=EHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:03.3
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=256ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0402 ProdID=5621 Rev= 1.05
S:  Product=USB 2.0 Storage Device
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=125us

adham · 05-01-2004, 05:06 AM

I have a Firewire external hard disk, which worked great with SuSe 9.0, but with 9.1 and this submount system things got nasty. Once I plug the disk in it gets recognized, and konquerrer startsmounting it, but only one partition is accessible. For the other 2 partitions a mount point is created but no access is possible!!

If I get more info and possibly a solution I will post it, If anyone can help here it will be appreciated.

Ad

smtanner · 05-15-2004, 01:48 AM

I have related problems with SuSE 9.1. My flash card reader won't work properly unless a card is inserted when I boot up. If I want to change media, I have to reboot. In suse 9.0 it worked find (no submount). My digital camera, a kodak cx4230, doesn't seem to work correctly either (again it worked in 9.0)

adham · 05-15-2004, 03:07 PM

One way to solve this is by not leting the subfs module load, lokk for it in /lib/modules... and rename it to something like subfs_DONT=USE
This is a tip I got from Stean Sayfreid, fromt the Suse laptop list.

Then it works like in 9.0

rootboy · 05-24-2004, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by adham
One way to solve this is by not leting the subfs module load, lokk for it in /lib/modules... and rename it to something like subfs_DONT=USE
This is a tip I got from Stean Sayfreid, fromt the Suse laptop list.

Then it works like in 9.0

Bless you my son!

I had been having the exact same problems.

John