On Saturday 26 November 2005 14:52, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:04 +0000, Ten wrote:
OK, this is doing my head in. On SuSE 9.2, which I support a few end-users on around the place as part of my advocacy antics, there is a fairly well-known problem with some USB mass storage devices.
If anybody has personally surmounted this problem - or failing that has some salient ideas about it - or failing that a shoulder to cry on - I'd be hugely interested to hear about it.
Try comparing /drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h in the kernel source tree on your SuSE and Ubuntu systems. It may be that there is an entry for that specific device in the later system that was not in the SuSE kernel.
Sadly, my ubuntu installation was a very casual affair, and as it doesn't appear to have kernel sources knocking about as default, I'll now grab them.
I'm also upgrading the SuSE kernel I have here so I can check out whether that irons the issues (which it may well do). I had thought this an easy route to take in terms of getting others to try it if they had a problem.
I had similar problems with a Pentax Optio S camera where there was a fix for the previous model but on the new version they had changed the vendor id's
Yeah, there're a bunch of fixes for sony memory sticks in the SuSE unusual_devs.h, but it's not clear whether they're being applied for this one.
The memory stick isn't actually a SuSE own brand one - I don't have it right now so I can't relate the brand-name, but it shows up as sony eri.
Things appear in /proc/bus/usb... etc and stuff - the device is getting recognised and suseplugger lists it as a disk "Sony Eri Memory Stick" but then it dies.
Oh, also, I have an ati driver which I may tentatively install to get some games going - at 50 odd MB it's a heavy old file for a dialup connection, so if anyluggers have copies of ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run they can provide me with a checksum for, warm fuzzy thanks would abound. :)
Md5 checksum as follows
11c881f1558439949d346ae184f9067a ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run
Thank you, and thanks hugely to everyone else who provided me with this - a real life-saver since I can install this driver now without the agonising download period (I'm quite excited as I'm going to be able to order broadband soon :) ) and therefore grab the other stuff I need.
Hugely helpful :)
Cheers,
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Ten