Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:48:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:48:27 -0500 Received: from host25.actarg.com ([209.180.91.25]:20486 "EHLO actarg.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:48:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3C27B0B0.4060500@actarg.com> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:48:16 -0700 From: Kyle Organization: Action Target Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: SDDR-31, or possible kernel bug] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040909060002030605020809" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040909060002030605020809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a flash card which, when read, locks up linux hard. Here's the particulars so far. Is there anything I can do to help out kernel bug checking before I try to reformat this flash card? --------------040909060002030605020809 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Re: SDDR-31, or possible kernel bug" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re: SDDR-31, or possible kernel bug" Return-Path: Received: from pow.actarg.com (IDENT:root@pow.actarg.com [192.168.2.2]) by actarg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23828 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:03:36 -0700 Received: from ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net (IDENT:mdharm@ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net [64.169.228.100]) by pow.actarg.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBOM3Y419823 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:03:35 -0700 Received: (from mdharm@localhost) by ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11802 for kyle@actarg.com; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:03:33 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:03:33 -0800 From: Matthew Dharm To: Kyle Subject: Re: SDDR-31, or possible kernel bug Message-ID: <20011224140333.B11771@one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <3C23F6C9.5080802@actarg.com> <20011222005555.A21250@one-eyed-alien.net> <3C275BBF.6090003@actarg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C275BBF.6090003@actarg.com>; from kyle@actarg.com on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:45:51AM -0700 Organization: One Eyed Alien Networks X-Copyright: (C) 2001 Matthew Dharm, all rights reserved. --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I suggest you contact linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and see what they say. Matt On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:45:51AM -0700, Kyle wrote: > Matthew Dharm wrote: >=20 > >Yes, I'm still supporting it. > > > >Can you recompile your kernel with USB Mass Storage Verbose debugging > >turned on? > > > Hmmm, I have an interesting new development. I had previously been doing: >=20 > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash >=20 > The device appeared to mount fine, but as soon as I would do: >=20 > find /mnt/flash >=20 > the system will *hard* lock. I just put the problem flash in a PCMCIA=20 > adapter and stuck it in my laptop. It is recognized nicely on /dev/hde.= =20 > I do: >=20 > mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash >=20 > which works ok, but when I do: >=20 > find /mnt/flash >=20 > the system hard locks just as before (but without usb being involved at= =20 > all)... >=20 > I looked in syslog and found: >=20 > Dec 24 10:07:08 nb0 kernel: hde: hde1 > Dec 24 10:07:08 nb0 kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487 > Dec 24 10:07:08 nb0 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on=20 > dev 21:00. > Dec 24 10:07:08 nb0 kernel: hde: hde1 >=20 > I repeated the test and still got the hard lock, but the error messages= =20 > about the FAT being messed up are not there. So I looked back in=20 > earlier logs of when I had been trying to mount the usb flash reader and= =20 > sure enough: Even though later crashes had yielded no syslog messages,= =20 > there were earlier ones that did. Here's a section of syslog: >=20 > Dec 21 19:29:49 nb0 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > Dec 21 19:34:44 nb0 su(pam_unix)[1239]: session opened for user root by= =20 > kyle(uid=3D1000) > Dec 21 19:42:46 nb0 apmd[699]: Battery: -0.055762 (0:18) 4294967295=20 > days, 4294967291:4294967244 (100% unknown) > Dec 21 20:06:37 nb0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-97 > Dec 21 20:06:37 nb0 last message repeated 3 times > Dec 21 20:07:02 nb0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module freedos > Dec 21 20:07:09 nb0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module freefat > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0,=20 > channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 228 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 242 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 256 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : status =3D 1, message =3D 00, host =3D = 0,=20 > driver =3D 08 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,=20 > disk size 1GB. > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: unable to read partition table > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc= =20 > in the drive. > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 292 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 306 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 320 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : status =3D 1, message =3D 00, host =3D = 0,=20 > driver =3D 08 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,=20 > disk size 1GB. > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 > Dec 21 20:07:24 nb0 kernel: unable to read partition table > Dec 21 20:07:46 nb0 kernel: SCSI device sda: 125185 512-byte hdwr=20 > sectors (64 MB) > Dec 21 20:07:46 nb0 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off > Dec 21 20:07:46 nb0 kernel: sda: sda1 > Dec 21 20:12:21 nb0 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. >=20 > I don't understand why later attempts don't log to syslog, but it=20 > appears to me that there is data corruption of some kind in this=20 > particular flash card. Every test that's failed had this card involved= =20 > and other cards have not (yet) failed. >=20 > I'm not sure if I should try reformatting the flash card or if we would= =20 > lose a valuable chance to find a potential kernel problem. Is the=20 > kernel expected to survive if I mount a corrupt filesystem? >=20 > I realize this sounds like the problem is not in your driver, but do you= =20 > have any suggestions? >=20 > > > > > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:58:17PM -0700, Kyle wrote: > > > >> Are you still supporting the usb-storage code? > >> > >>I have some of the SDDR-31 flash readers I'm using under Linux. They= =20 > >>seem to work most of the time but when I get a flash card with lots of= =20 > >>pictures on it, I hard lock the machine when I try to browse the newly= =20 > >>mounted filesystem. > >> > >>I'm running redhat 7.2 (2.4.9 stock kernel). > >> > >>Any ideas where to start looking? > >> > > >=20 >=20 --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I think the problem is there's a nut loose on your keyboard. -- Greg to Customer User Friendly, 1/5/1999=20 --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8J6Y1z64nssGU+ykRAjflAJ0cqnVNEQPbDW87vQsR5EHoZw3oXQCgrIW1 ZRDF468ZlUGw7olnIeASFV4= =agiH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD-- --------------040909060002030605020809-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/