HAL + 6 in 1 USB flash reader - constant errors to log

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Sat Nov 13 03:11:34 PST 2004


On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:30:33PM -0600, David D. Hagood wrote:
> Upon upgrading to Fedora Core 3, HAL started filling my log with errors 
> in trying to access my Genesys 6-in-one Flash card reader. There is no 
> media in the reader. I've stopped the flood by switching from blacklist 
> mode to whitelist mode, but that obviously means I lose the automounting 
> of media.
> 
> The information about how to create the .fdi files needed to blacklist 
> the changer, or to inform HAL not to constantly autoscan the changer, or 
> otherwise prevent the flood of messages is unclear in the man pages, or 
> in the information online that I have found.
> 
> What do I need to do to correct this?
> 
> 
> Nov 12 19:52:01 surfer kernel: uba: made changed
> Nov 12 19:52:03 surfer kernel: uba: device 3 capacity nsec 50 bsize 512
> Nov 12 19:52:05 surfer kernel: uba: device 3 capacity nsec 50 bsize 512
> Nov 12 19:52:05 surfer kernel:  uba:end_request: I/O error, dev uba, 
> sector 2

I've heard from various people that they have problems when using the ub
driver, while usb-storage worked fine with their devices.

Unfortunately to change this you need to recompile the kernel without the ub
driver ...

  Sjoerd
-- 
I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!!
_______________________________________________
hal mailing list
hal at freedesktop.org
http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal



More information about the Hal mailing list