Re: System hangs when using USB 3.0 HD with on Ubuntu

Alan Stern
2010-04-09T19:25:32Z

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jonas Schwertfeger wrote:

> On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > Someone should probably tell Neil Perng at Genesys Logic. Maybe Dinh
> > Nguyen (from the launchpad entry) can provide an email address or
> > forward this thread on?
>
> Why are we sure that my drive has a chip by Genesys Logic in it at all?
> I know that there are disks out there with that chip and that there
> are issues with it, but how did we conclude that the Buffalo drive has
> the same chip in it? Is there a way for me to verify what chip is used
> without opening the case?

Now that you mention it, we don't know what sort of chip you have.
Only that the vendor ID is 0x0411 (MelCo., Inc.) and the product ID is
0x0184.

I don't know of any way to find out what sort of chip it is without
opening the case (except perhaps by asking the manufacturer).

Alan Stern