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Re: [Xen-devel] USB disk corruption on Xen 4.1.0 & Linux 2.6.38.7

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] USB disk corruption on Xen 4.1.0 & Linux 2.6.38.7
From: Anthony Wright <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:59:12 +0100
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On 02/06/2011 15:44, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:24:56PM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote:
>>>> Do you get the same problem if you boot baremetal and do 'iommu=soft' 
>>>> (without the mem=4G)? You should see the same error.
>>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "boot baremetal", but I've just done a 
>>> boot where I removed the mem=4096M options from the Xen boot line and added 
>>> an 'iommu=soft' option. The result of this was a corrupt USB device again.
>> Baremetal = no Xen.
Tried a baremetal boot (no Xen) with ''iommu=soft" on the linux command
line, and the USB reads fine.
> I've an BIOSTART motherboard that looks to have a similar EHCI controller - 
> MCP61 based.
> Is the USB stick that you are using any special? Or is just a normal one?
It's a Kingston DataTraveler G2 (2GB). It's the cheapest memory stick I
could find at the time, nothing special as far as I know.

I'll try to get the kernel sorted out to get around the screen
corruption tonight, and try on another system tomorrow and with a
different memory stick too.

Cheers,

Anthony.

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