On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:53 GMT > bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13605 > > > > Summary: usb-storage: broken with new Nokia E75 (Symbian S60 > > 9.3 FP2) > > A bit of USB storage fun. The reporter found a workaround, but windows > worked and Linux didn't. >From the information provided in the bug report, it appears that this device has trouble accessing sectors near the end of the medium. Since Linux probes for various RAID signatures in the last few sectors and Windows doesn't, we sometimes run across reports like this of devices that apparently work with Windows but not Linux. In accordance with your practical inclinations, it would seem logical to remove this RAID probing from the Linux kernel and thus bypass the problem. But we can't! The probing isn't in the kernel to begin with! It's all done by userspace programs (part of udev and hal). What do you suggest? Alan Stern -- 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
