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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:56:57PM -0400, David Williamson wrote:

> 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

IRQ problems, search bugzilla for some similar reports.

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

Bug, but harmless as far as I know.

> "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 ...

This is due to the IRQ difficulty.

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 - mdz