USB stick partition problems

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:12:14AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I have some devices that will not run, or are flakey, under uhci_hcd.
> I've had to rebuild my kernel with ohci_hcd in the kernel, and uhci_hcd
> as a module that does *NOT* autoload.  I run ohci_hcd (USB 1.1) most of
> the time.  For big backups to USB2-capable devices, I...
> 
> modprobe uhci_hcd
> udevstart
> < do the backup or whatever >
> rmmod uhci_hcd
> udevstart
> 
>   I know that it looks ugly, but it works.  I think the problem may be
> that USB 2 drivers won't work with USB 1.1 hardware.

uhci and ohci are two different implementations of usb 1.x, ehci is the
usb 2.x implementation that every fortunately agreed on.

Len Sorensen
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