Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Feb 4 15:32:40 UTC 2005
Kevin Fries wrote:
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> David L Norris wrote:
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> |On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:24 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
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> |>I am trying to get a Microtek X12 USL scanner attached, and udev fails
> |>to mount it, every time. Has anyone tried uninstalling udev and
> |>reinstalling devfs to stop all these damn usb failures?
> |>
> |>If so, any hints on how not to make your system unstable?
> |
> |
> |File a bug report that clearly describes the problem?
> |
> |I'm not sure what USB has to do with a SCSI scanner... But, I have many
>
> the X12 is both USB and SCSI-2
>
> |USB devices all connected at once that work perfectly fine: Hard disk,
> |HP tape drive, 6-in-1 card reader, Imation Superdisk (Macintosh
> |software-eject version), CD-RW, usb-to-parallel printer converter,
> |Kensington USB mouse, and a USB-PS/2 keyboard/mouse adapter.
>
> Definitely not my experience or that of several others. I have had
> intermittent issues with keyboard and mice, but usually only during
> the boot process. However, USB flash sticks have had more bugs filed
> against them than there are stars in the sky. My experience with
> flash sticks are that only about 1/3 to 1/2 of the sticks work with
> some manufacturers (My Lexar is perfect, but some no-names rarely
> work) better than others. The problem 100% of the time is with that
> damn udev system, it just is not fully cooked. While user space
> mounting of devices are definitely the way to go, udev is not ready.
> It should be reserved to 2.7 and a working system put in place.
>
We use memory sticks around work and I have had problems loading some
on my computer with FC1. In one case I went to the Manufacturers site
and found that the file system has to be re-created to work with
Linux. Their users documentation actually states this.
FWIW, I have the odd lockup with FC1 and USB from time to time.
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Robin Laing
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