[CentOS] USB-3.0 on C6.5 ??

Thu May 29 03:52:21 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 01:54:13PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:52:11PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:19:49AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > On 05/22/2014 09:09 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > > Just wondering if there are any known issues with USB 3.0 storage devices
> > > > in Centos 6.5??
> > > >
> > > > I just got one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817332028
> > > >
> > > > it does either esata or USB 3.0. My new motherboard (ASUS M5A99X EVO
> > > > R2.0) supports both, so I've tried both (of course, can't have a feature
> > > > without at least giving it a whirl! :)). esata seems to work fine,
> > > > I can copy gigs 'n gigs of data to it using the esata connection.
> > > >
> > > > however, with USB3 it works for a bit then something goes wonky...
> > > > After copying some hundreds of megabytes (and I don't know if it is a
> > > > consistent number or not) suddenly my C6 box starts reporting write
> > > > errors.
> > > >
> > > > some investigation shows that /dev/sdc (and /dev/sdc1) no longer exist
> > > > on the system. it takes a reboot to get it back. After which it'll
> > > > work for a while then the same thing all over again. I've tried a
> > > > different USB 3.0 cable but it makes no difference.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone got ideas on this?
> 
> You may try using a newer kernel from ElRepo (currently 3.14.4):
> 
>     http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
> 
> If it were a driver problem, maybe it was fixed.
> 
> Mihai

I didn't do that, but what I did do was download a nightly build
for Fedora 21, a live CD image, burn it to a disc and boot that.
One would think it has a recent kernel (I neglected to look while
it was running to find out what kernel it was). 

so I ran a bunch of commands to copy stuff to and from it, and 
while it took a few minutes, it also failed in more or less the same
way. I'd guess that means that whatever the bug is, it's not fixed
in Linux, yet.

:( :( :(

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