USB floppy works with 2.4.21
Ryan <[email protected]>
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For anyone who may care, As of 2.4.21 my USB floppy drive (Sony MPF82E) works perfectly. My previous kernel 2.4.21-pre4 and all before it would lock the USB bus up when usb-storage was loaded. I have usb-storage as a module, load it, plug in the drive and mount /dev/sdb /proc/bus/usb/devices says this: T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=054c ProdID=002c Rev= 4.01 S: Manufacturer=Sony S: Product=USB Floppy Drive C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=04 Prot=00 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=16ms Syslog says this (verbose debugging): Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: act_altsettting is 0 Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: id_index calculated to be: 66 Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: Array length appears to be: 76 Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: USB Mass Storage device detected Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: Endpoints: In: 0xd069af80 Out: 0xd069af94 Int: 0xd069afa8 (Period 16) Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: Found existing GUID 054c002c0000000000000000 Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: Allocating IRQ for CBI transport Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: usb-storage: usb_submit_urb() returns 0 Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured Jul 12 21:38:36 vaio kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 6 Ryan