Re: 2.4.21: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured?

Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:19:48 -0700


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That warning means that if you yank the device at a bad time, you could get
screwed.

Matt

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:12:16AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> This morning I tried to attach an 2.5" HD via USB2.0 to my Linux box.
> I got a message
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> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
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> in kern.log, followed by billions of IO errors during mkfs.
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> Well, I need a mass storage whose integrity _is_ assured. Is there
> any hope that ehci and usb-storage get improved for a 2.4.x kernel?
> Any patches I could try?
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> Regards
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> Harri
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