mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

From: David Weinehall
Date: Wed Nov 29 2006 - 16:48:09 EST


I've got an Archos AV500 here (running the very latest firmware), pretty
much acting as a doorstop, since I cannot get it to be recognized
properly by Linux.

This device has two modes, and one usb-id for each:

Windows device mode:
0e79:1129

mass storage mode:
0e79:1128

I didn't really expect any luck with the former (and didn't have any
either), but I was kind of hoping that the latter would be supported.
Not so.

Relevant info from dmesg:

[ 112.904000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 4
[ 113.036000] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 113.124000] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 113.140000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 113.140000] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 113.140000] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 113.140000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 113.140000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 113.140000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 118.140000] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Archos AV500
0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 118.140000] SCSI device sdb: 58074975 512-byte hdwr sectors (29734
MB)
[ 118.144000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 118.144000] sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
[ 118.144000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 118.144000] SCSI device sdb: 58074975 512-byte hdwr sectors (29734
MB)
[ 118.144000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 118.144000] sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
[ 118.144000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 118.144000] sdb: unknown partition table
[ 118.452000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[ 118.452000] usb-storage: device scan complete

This is with linux-image-2.6.19-7-generic 2.6.19-7.10 from Ubuntu edgy.
I get similar results with a home-brew 2.6.18-rc4.

Any mass storage quirk needed that might be missing?


Regards: David
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