dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset,
> > the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is
> > the culprit. I'm going to buy a new enclosure.
> 
> Can you provide these details (forward what Paul sent you, etc.)?  It
> would be nice to have this info somewhere in the archives in case
> someone mails about similar...

Here it is;

> I don't have your original posting, so I don't know what model of
> chipset you have, though I do dimly recall it being a Prolific, which is
> why I thought I'd e-mail you.  Given that the PL3507 had an early
> history of problems when writing to it using large transfers (and that
> GELI uses large transfers, IIRC), and you say that enclosure is old, you
> might want to see if chipset bugs are the source of your problem.
>
> Here is a link I had bookmarked when I was looking for firmware updates for
> the Prolific PL3507:
> http://missig.org/julian/blog/2004/06/10/prolific-pl3507-firewire-device/
>
> Here is a link to the corruption issue that plagued various chipsets,
> including the Prolific PL3507:
> http://www.bustrace.com/delayedwrite/index.htm

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