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Message-ID: <45792B4D.8050705@citd.de> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:07:25 +0100 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@...d.de> To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, DervishD <lkml@...vishd.net> Subject: Re: single bit errors on files stored on USB-HDDs via USB2/usb_storage Robert Hancock wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> Hmmm. That's the only thing that i currently may be doing wrong. >> I have a 1,5 Meter and a 4,5 Meter cable connected to the USB-Controller >> and i only use of them depending on where the HDD is placed in my room, >> the other one is dangling unconnected. >> >> Then i will unconnect the short cable and use the long cable exclusivly >> and see if it gets better(tm). > > > That long cable could be part of the problem - I don't think the USB > specification allows for cables that long (something like a 6 foot max > as I recall). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB2 Says that 5 meters are allowed. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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