[haiku] Haiku support for USB drives
- From: Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:38:48 +0000
Hi,
I've been running the pre-Alphas on an Acer Aspire One since BeGeistert.
Ever so often I update to a newer build. This involves downloading
the image on my Mac, then transferring the file to the netbook* via a
USB drive. This is usually fine.
Before copying the files to the HD I first copy them onto another BFS
formatted USB drive. Unfortunately this is a bit of a slow process as
it's seemingly the slowest USB drive on the planet. If it boots OK I
copy it to the HD, another 15 minute wait.
After getting ever more annoyed at the slowness of this process I
upgraded to a bigger and much faster USB drive - A Sandisk cruzer 8GB
to be exact. Unfortunately Haiku doesn't like it...
You can initialise a partition but this will involve sever trips to
kernel debugging land and may not be successful. These are the errors:
w>DriveSetup
block notifier/writer
You can't immediately mount the drive, you have to eject and reinsert
it.
If you try to mount the drive it will pay dozens of trips to KDB, with
these errors
media checker
block notifier/writer
It most likely wont mount and if you want to try again you have to
pull out and reinsert.
The odd thing is the exact same drive when formatted to DOS works just
fine.
The driver appears to be leaving the drive in a strange state - there
is a light on the drive which flashes if it's in use and pulses slowly
if it's not. I've seen the drive left with the light left on or off.
Anyone else getting odd behaviour with USB drives? Is this specific
to my setup / drive or are these known bugs?
*You can safely use the term netbook as long as you are not making
money from it. That said I wonder will Psion try suing the owner of
"netbook.com" ;-)
--
Nicholas Blachford
nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.blachford.info
"Does it give loads of powaa for little wonga and overclock like a
mutha?" - dizietsma
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