sata, ata, flash mix - slows system down to a crawl when copying from flash

[David Williamson]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 08:31 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:15:03AM -0400, David Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Here's my /etc/modules:
> > 
> > sd_mod
> > sr_mod
> > psmouse
> > mousedev
> 
> add "piix" here.
> 
> > ide-cd
> > ide-disk
> > ide-generic
> > sbp2
> > lp
> > nvidia

Thanks - I would never have guessed "piix" on my own.  But, now I can't
test if that fixed it because the CF card doesn't automount anymore.
I'll have to guess where the system put it - /dev/sdb1, sdc1, whatever.
I hate that.

Perhaps these errors I'm seeing on bootup will make sense to you and
suggest something: (not in this order, just cut and pasted from dmesg or
typed from memory)

Starting Common UNIX Printing System...
followed by:
usb 5-1.4.2: string descriptor 0 read error: -110
<this repeats many many times>

dmesg shows this, maybe related to above:
usb 5-1.4.2: control timeout on ep0in
usb 5-1.4.2: string descriptor 0 read error: -110

Device 'i823650' does not have a release() function, it is broken and
must be fixed.

"starting hotplug subsystem" takes about a minute or 90 seconds every
time - and my brother on a completely different system has the same
problem with this message ...

Thanks again for your time.

david williamson