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Comment 23 for bug 1082215

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote : Re: Writing on a certain USB HDD causes corruption

This is fixed upstream in kernel 3.8.1 by the following patch:

commit c8f96b36a83763b2cdedaec489eb39d3394a2366
Author: Josh Boyer
Date: Thu Feb 14 09:39:09 2013 -0500

    USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs update for Super TOP SATA bridge

    commit 18e03310b5caa6d11c1a8c61b982c37047693fba upstream.

    The current entry in unusual_cypress.h for the Super TOP SATA bridge devices
    seems to be causing corruption on newer revisions of this device. This has
    been reported in Arch Linux and Fedora. The original patch was tested on
    devices with bcdDevice of 1.60, whereas the newer devices report bcdDevice
    as 2.20. Limit the UNUSUAL_DEV entry to devices less than 2.20.

    This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909591

    The Arch Forum post on this is here:
     https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152011

    Reported-by: Carsten S.
    Tested-by: Carsten S.
    Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

This patch is also available in the upstream 3.0.67 kernel as commit cfb2ddcace95399e4dcefebb62e16cd93c9d4ae7 which should soon make it's way into Oneiric. It will hopefully also end up in the upstream 3.2.x kernel series soon so that it will make it's way into Precise.

The 3.5.x upstream kernel series is EOL (end of life), maybe Canonical can backport it to Quantal?