Re: USB CD/disk not working after 2.6.7

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 15:25:18 EST


Sami Farin wrote:
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:20:58PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Since 2.6.7 no kernel has seen my USB CD burner or disk. I took the disk off to simplify the picture, it still doesn't work.

...

Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0
unable to read partition table


remove this line from .config and rebuild kernel...
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB=y

...and it will just work.

Thank you for the prompt answer! I've started rebuilding the kernel.

Do you know if the incompatibility between flash key support and CD/disk a bug, design decision, or unavoidable characteristic of the devices involved? I have some kind of a flash key coming for evaluation, so I built with that on.

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-bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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