Problems detecting file-backed storage gadget on usb

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:43:15 -0300
"Diogo Böhm" <zeekay.diogo at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Could you try booting on a Live-CD 8.10 Ubuntu and check if it gets
> detected? I asked tha because 6.10 is from 2 years ago, there have been lots
> of updates since then, and as it's linux, many kernel speed improvements, so
> it will indeed be a good thing getting your OS updated.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 2008/9/23 John Linn <John.Linn at xilinx.com>
> 
> >  I am running Ubuntu 6.10 as a USB Host machine.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am plugging in an embedded device running open source linux 2.6.27 with
> > the file-backed storage gadget running. I plug it into the USB port of the
> > Ubuntu machine and expect the host to add a new scsi device sd* when it sees
> > it but it never does.  Other mass storage devices seem to work fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > When plugging in the embedded device with file-backed storage gadget I only
> > get the following messages.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sep 23 09:29:12 wolfgang-pc kernel: [21976600.100000] usb 5-5: new high
> > speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 71
> >
> > Sep 23 09:29:13 wolfgang-pc kernel: [21976600.644000] usb 5-5: new high
> > speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 72
> >
> > Sep 23 09:29:13 wolfgang-pc kernel: [21976601.188000] usb 5-5: new high
> > speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 73
> >
> > Sep 23 09:29:13 wolfgang-pc kernel: [21976601.324000] usb 5-5: new high
> > speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 74
> >
> >
> >
> > When I plug in other mass storage devices I get messages about the scsi
> > devices.
> >
> >
> >
> > This works on a redhat machine so I'm thinking there's a configuration
> > issue or a bug somewhere?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John

Instead of 8.10, use version 8.04, which is the latest stable release.
Version 8.10 is still Alpha 6, which is unstable and has some bugs in
it. 

Good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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