On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 19:32 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > Just came up with some interesting (read: frustrating) problems on > RHEL3 and RHEL4 today at work, and I've confirmed one of the problems > on my up-to-date CentOS4 system at home. I was forced into releasing > some RHEL3 systems to replace our aging RH9 systems without time for > adequate testing, and that leads to problems like these. > > On our legacy RH9 systems, mounting a USB key is no problem, but I > can't get it to work on either RHEL3-U6 or RHEL4-U2 (= CentOS4). I'm > curious if any CentOS3 or CentOS4 users have any suggestions. > > Here are the results from plugging in a USB Key and trying to mount it: > > 1. On RHEL3-U6, some systems get the following, and there is a workaround: > > Message: USB device not accepting new address > Workaround: /sbin/modprobe -r ehci-hcd > > Message: READ CAPACITY failed > ... > Unable to read partition table > > Workareound: none that I am aware of. The above workaround has no effect. > > 3. RHEL4-U2 and CentOS4 get the following: > > No possibility to mount. As soon as you plug in the USB key, the > system goes into a SCSI error loop until you unplug it. > > I've googled extensively for an answer, found a few hits for the RHEL3 > problem, but no useful solutions. > > The RHEL4 problem is apparrently a 2.6 kernel bug. Doe anyone know of > a packaged kernel solution for this? I'm using the CentOS unsupported > kernel at home, but same problem as in the stock RHEL4 kernel. Have RH > possibly fixed this in the U3 beta? > > In case you're wondering about the key(s), the mount works flawlessly > including KDE automounting the key on my Kubuntu Dapper development > system with kernel 2.6.15-16-386 #1 PREEMPT. > > TIA, > > -- > Collins Richey > The agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake wondering if there is a dog. > _______________________________________________ You might try the CentOSPlus kernel as it has some added hardware turned on. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060303/cc16c1f6/attachment-0005.sig>