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

Thu May 29 22:27:55 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:12:24AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 10:52 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > :( :( :(
> >
> 
> So, do you have any other external USB 3 drives laying around to test with?
> 
> It would be good to test if this is a problem with more than just the
> one external RAID box that you are using.
> 
> How long does this usually take to get the error and what kind of writes
> access does it take to cause it to fail .. I have 2 of those exact
> boards in production and a USB3 drive I can plug in and test.  I would
> like to know if this is specific to individual drives or an overall USB3
> problem as I recommend those boards to people now.
> 

Johnny, check out this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096572
where comment #10 reports that someone upstream has been working on this bug
and is thought to have a fix.

If that is in fact the cause of my problem, one could wish that it would
eventually get backported into EL6 and ultimiately Centos....

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