Re: 2.6.21rc7 autoresume fails on Seagate FreeAgent drives

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Wolf Faust wrote:

> I still have problems getting external Seagate Freeagent (750GB) 
> drives autoresume(?) correctly connected to USB. I did test with 
> 2.6.21rc7, 2.6.18, 2.6.16 with various Intel/Nec/Via based 
> controllers. 
> 
> Seagate Pushbutton (750GB) drives work with 2.6.21rc7 (again), but 
> the Seagate Freeagent drive (750GB) still fails and I have to "dd" 
> some blocks in order to start the drive before accessing it again. 
> Accessing the drive with ext3 while in standby results in the 
> partition becoming read-only. I have no idea what chip set is used 
> for the usb->SATA is used in the FreeAgent drives. To make it worse, 
> the firewire and eSata drivers also have serious problems to 
> autoresume. So none of the drives interfaces work with 
> Linux.
> 
> I'm willing to spend some time tracing/fixing the problem, but I'm a 
> programmer and not a kernel guru ;-) Is somebody working on the 
> problem already? Is there anything I can do to help trace/debug the 
> problem in order to fix it? If not, any idea what/where I should 
> start tracing/looking at in the kernel source code?  

You haven't provided a clear description of what the problem is.  It would 
help to see a dmesg log with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG turned on.

Alan Stern


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