On Fr, 2018-08-03 at 16:15 +0100, Mustafa A wrote: > The drive (128GB USB 3.0) https://www.sandisk.co.uk/home/usb-flash/ultra-fit-usb overheats to the point where the metal part would burn someone if they held it for more than a second. > > The overheating only happens on this brand of USB drives, other USB 3.0 drives have been fine. > The overheating only happens with Linux 4.15.0-29 (the default Kubuntu 18.04 kernel), it's fine when transferring files in Windows (tried with 8.1). > The overheating happens even when files aren't transferring, even when the drive is idle. Please try enabling autosuspend for this device. Power management for storage devices is by default off because some devices with removable media fail horribly with it. If this helps we could try to get a rule for such drives into udev. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
