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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:52:48 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: USB Storage speed regression since 2.6.12
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> I see a worse problem, I load the driver, mount the filesystems on the 
> USB 160GB disk, and the disk just "goes away." I see the devices in 
> /proc/scsi/scsi but I can't access the devices any more. Definitely time 
> for a fallback to a more stable kernel!

Please us get 2.6.13 fixed first.  Can you generate the dmesg output for
good and bad kernels, diff them and see if there's anything useful there?

What does "can't access" mean?  -EIO?