Subject: Re: usb hub makes floppy act up
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 21:52:01 AKDT
Hmm.. I've been playing around some more, and it seems that the floppy
drives are accessed whenever any usb device (USB 1 or 2, hub or
otherwise) is unplugged. The USB2 hub sometimes gets stuck in a loop
where it keeps getting disconnected and reconnected.
So, the drives accessing is kind of annoying, but not really a problem,
and seems to be associated with devlabel, which gets rerun every time a
usb device is connected or disconnected. The main issue seems to be
that the hub gets stuck in a connect/disconnect loop sometimes, and I'm
not sure why. linux-usb.org suggests using 2.4.22 with USB 2, and RH9
ships with 2.4.20 - maybe a(nother) kernel upgrade is in order..
Unless someone has a different idea (please? I hate having to compile
new kernels :) )
Justin
Justin Dieters wrote:
> I am having a strange problem with RedHat 9. Whenever I plug in my USB
> 2.0 hub, my system starts trying to access my floppy drives. First the
> 3.5 light comes on for a second, then the 5.25 comes on for a second,
> and then they are off for a few seconds, then they come on again.
>
> Looking around at '/var/log/messages', 'top', and 'ps ax', it appears
> that when I plug in my hub, '/etc/hotplug/usb.agent' starts up and in
> turn runs '/sbin/devlabel', and one or the other is causing the problem.
>
> Anyone know where to look - config files or whatnot?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
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