Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ASUS M2A-VM and kernel 2.6.27

[Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>]

Duncan wrote:
> David Relson <david@osagesoftware.com> posted
> 20081215074756.33119ced@fit-pc, excerpted below, on  Mon, 15 Dec 2008
> 07:47:56 -0500:
> 
>> FWIW, I've had the board for a year or so.  I learned when I got it that
>> the USB support for the SB600 is bad (based on discussions with the
>> kernel USB mailing list).  I worked around that problem with a PCI USB
>> card.
> 
> 2.6.28 I believe has the fix for that.  If not, .29 will.  There's 
> definitely a patch ready, I know that, as I've been following a bug based 
> on someone here having that issue.
> 

Yes, that fix _works_around_ the hw bug of the SB600 as Duncan explained
in another email in this thread. But I still have issues with a 8Gb
Kingston USB key, on this mobo it does not work neither in Gentoo (stops
during read or write transfer with various errors) nor in WindowsXP, so
I have little chance to get it working. The key works fine on all other
PCs I have tested.

I'd not buy again this board, I don't know if I'll buy again Asus.

raf