Bug 63312 – usb mass-storage; devices are not generated reliably; kernel 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r11

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description peter 2004-09-08 08:42:52 UTC]

1.Memory-stick
When a memory-stick is plugged in, a link to the device and the device-partition is generated (e.g. /dev/@sda,/dev/@sda1) - o.k.
When it is then unplugged and a mount command for the /dev/sda1 is sent, the partition-link is erased;
when it is plugged in again, no partition link (/dev/@sda1) is generated anymore.

2. Card-reader
A link to a device partition is only generated, when the card-reader with a card in it is plugged in at boot time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot the computer
2.do as described in 'Details'
3.
Actual Results:  
described in 'Details' 

Expected Results:  
1. A partition device should be generated on plugging in - independently how 
many correct or incorrect mount commands were sent. 
2. The same behaviour should be valid for the card-reader 

I use a motherboard ASUS P4B533 and built a gentoo 2004.2 system from stage3

[Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-09-11 12:56:40 UTC]

Can you reproduce this issue with a vanilla 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?

[Comment 2 peter 2004-09-16 02:26:49 UTC]

I tried it with kernel vanilla-2.4.27; the behaviour remains the same

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-21 16:25:47 UTC]

In that case its an upstream bug, not much we can do, please report it to [e-mail] - I suggest posting kernel logs with USB debugging messages enabled. I'd also suggest trying 2.6 which seems to handle USB devices better.