Mutliple card USB card readers

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Wed Sep 29 13:43:23 UTC 2004


Okay, ill do. But how can i first test the device, so that we can be
sure that it isn't one of those who should be blacklisted? And what sort
of negative effects might it have if it is one of the devices who don't
like it? Where can i find a "blacklist"?

ons, 29.09.2004 kl. 15.23 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:18:04 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > Anybody who knows how to enable mulitple LUN's? And why this isn't done
> > in fedora by default?
> 
> The way it works in the fedora kernel is mult-lun devices are part of
> a staticly defined whitelist of devices that are known to work with
> multi-lun. The list is applied as a patch to the kernel.  The reason
> why multi-lun is not turned on by default is that some devices don't
> like being probed for multi-lun and that can cause a serious problem
> for those devices.
> 
> So if you have a multi-lun device that isn't working you need to file
> a bug against the kernel and give some specific information about the
> usb device.  Specifically i think what the kernel developers need to
> know about the device is contained in lsusb -v. So open a bug report
> about the device and in the summary give human readable specifics
> about the make and model number, and then attach the output of lsusb
> -v to the bugreport.
> 
> You might want to review the lsusb -v output first for yourself and
> make sure you can figure out which device in the output is the one you
> want the developer's to whitelist and note the idVendor  and idProduct
> lines in the summary of the bugreport.
> 
> -jef




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