Either the message is useless or there is a real higer
risk with USB that with other buses - and I would like to
know what it is too.
Matthew Dharm wrote:
>
> That warning means that if you yank the device at a bad time, you could get
> screwed.
>
> Matt
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:12:16AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This morning I tried to attach an 2.5" HD via USB2.0 to my Linux box.
> > I got a message
> >
> > WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> >
> > in kern.log, followed by billions of IO errors during mkfs.
> >
> >
> > Well, I need a mass storage whose integrity _is_ assured. Is there
> > any hope that ehci and usb-storage get improved for a 2.4.x kernel?
> > Any patches I could try?
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