I have tried mounting the satnav on a i386 box with both debian and stable 2.6.39-rc5 self compiled. Both report the "INQUIRY result too short", but nevertheless do generate the /dev/disk/by-id links which can then be used to mount and unmount the satnav. The debian kernal is much more noisy than 2.6.39-rc5, reporting many usb device resets.
Back on the amd64 box, where the device nodes are not craeted, I collected the reports from udevadm:- # udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent <===== Satnav plugged in here ======> KERNEL[1304259432.206729] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4 (usb) KERNEL[1304259432.208411] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1304259432.212251] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259432.212285] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/scsi_host/host8 (scsi_host) UDEV [1304259432.213283] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4 (usb) UDEV [1304259432.217751] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1304259432.219124] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8 (scsi) UDEV [1304259432.220206] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/scsi_host/host8 (scsi_host) KERNEL[1304259433.212934] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0 (scsi) UDEV [1304259433.213532] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259433.213618] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259433.214195] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_disk/8:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[1304259433.214382] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_device/8:0:0:0 (scsi_device) KERNEL[1304259433.214567] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic) KERNEL[1304259433.214694] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/bsg/8:0:0:0 (bsg) KERNEL[1304259433.215915] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259433.216777] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_disk/8:0:0:1 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[1304259433.217071] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_device/8:0:0:1 (scsi_device) KERNEL[1304259433.217244] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_generic/sg3 (scsi_generic) KERNEL[1304259433.217364] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/bsg/8:0:0:1 (bsg) UDEV [1304259433.221417] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1 (scsi) UDEV [1304259433.223168] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_disk/8:0:0:1 (scsi_disk) UDEV [1304259433.225021] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0 (scsi) UDEV [1304259433.226442] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_device/8:0:0:0 (scsi_device) UDEV [1304259433.227406] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_disk/8:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) UDEV [1304259433.228629] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/bsg/8:0:0:1 (bsg) UDEV [1304259433.229567] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_generic/sg3 (scsi_generic) UDEV [1304259433.230292] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_device/8:0:0:1 (scsi_device) UDEV [1304259433.232393] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic) UDEV [1304259433.232819] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/bsg/8:0:0:0 (bsg) <============================ sat nav unplugged here ==============> KERNEL[1304259521.291307] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.291343] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/block/sdc (block) KERNEL[1304259521.293026] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/bsg/8:0:0:0 (bsg) UDEV [1304259521.293060] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.293075] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic) KERNEL[1304259521.293088] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_device/8:0:0:0 (scsi_device) UDEV [1304259521.294211] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/bsg/8:0:0:0 (bsg) KERNEL[1304259521.295885] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.295918] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) KERNEL[1304259521.295932] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_disk/8:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[1304259521.295944] remove /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.295958] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) KERNEL[1304259521.295972] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259521.295986] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/bsg/8:0:0:1 (bsg) KERNEL[1304259521.296000] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_generic/sg3 (scsi_generic) KERNEL[1304259521.296013] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_device/8:0:0:1 (scsi_device) KERNEL[1304259521.296025] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_disk/8:0:0:1 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[1304259521.296036] remove /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.296050] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/block/sdc (block) KERNEL[1304259521.296063] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259521.296075] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[1304259521.296087] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/scsi_host/host8 (scsi_host) KERNEL[1304259521.296099] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8 (scsi) UDEV [1304259521.299069] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi) KERNEL[1304259521.299363] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1304259521.299386] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4 (usb) UDEV [1304259521.301385] remove /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi) UDEV [1304259521.301417] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/scsi_host/host8 (scsi_host) UDEV [1304259521.303314] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_disk/8:0:0:1 (scsi_disk) UDEV [1304259521.303613] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_device/8:0:0:1 (scsi_device) UDEV [1304259521.304041] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/scsi_generic/sg3 (scsi_generic) UDEV [1304259521.304318] remove /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) UDEV [1304259521.304677] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_disk/8:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) UDEV [1304259521.304972] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/bsg/8:0:0:1 (bsg) UDEV [1304259521.305890] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_device/8:0:0:0 (scsi_device) UDEV [1304259521.308074] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic) UDEV [1304259521.415141] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) UDEV [1304259521.417169] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sdb (block) UDEV [1304259521.417881] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0 (scsi) UDEV [1304259521.421108] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/block/sdc (block) UDEV [1304259521.421647] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1/block/sdc (block) UDEV [1304259521.423691] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:1 (scsi) UDEV [1304259521.424685] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8/target8:0:0 (scsi) UDEV [1304259521.425256] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/host8 (scsi) UDEV [1304259521.425676] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1304259521.426235] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.4/usb1/1-4 (usb) =================================================================================================== So it nows looks as if there is a udev problem on the amd64 system since things seem to work on i386. I will try and find time to dig deeper into this as time permits. ael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org