Binary package hint: media-player-info
When connecting a Samsun YP-M1 media player, the max_sector setting for USB is set to 240.
With this setting, attempting to put large files on the device hangs everything, as explained in the following thread: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-13973_102-0.html?threadID=366598.
Following the advices of this thread, I put the max_sector setting to 64 and everything went well.
Following the advices for bug #573219, I put the following line in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb-media-players.rules:
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8" , ATTRS{idProduct}=="5123" , ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="samsung-yepp_yp-m1", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '/bin/echo 64 > /sys/block/%k/device/max_sectors'"
This did the trick and when I connect the device, max_sector is automatically set to the good value. In fact, it is set for both the device corresponding to the main memory of the player and also for the device corresponding to the SC card, which is exactly what I wanted.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: luc 1751 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 47'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9228'
Components : 'HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:10951392,1028022f,00100000 HDA:83847616,1028022f,00100402'
Controls : 22
Simple ctrls : 12
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f824963e-7a97-4b18-bd93-ea58fea1ecfd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100925)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: Yes
Tags: maverick kernel-config needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A16
dmi.board.name: 0U990C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA16:bd10/16/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1525:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U990C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1525
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
m-p-i is not supposed to do workarounds like this, so I am reassigning this to the kernel. Thanks!