Re: USB hub problem.
On 5 January 2014 20:07, atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I've a Toshiba USB 3.0 hard disk drive and when I attach it directly to the
> USB controller on my PC I succeed to mount it without any problem, but
> surprisingly, when I attach it to my PC via a 4-port USB hub, things get
> complicated.
>
> For some reason, the system registers the hard disk drive as a character
> device under the name: '/dev/sg3' and the mount command refuses to mount it
> and emits the following error messages:
>
> Error reading bootsector: Illegal seek
> Failed to sync device /dev/sg3: Invalid argument
> Failed to mount '/dev/sg3': Illegal seek
>
> What should I do in order to be able to mount the HDD via the USB hub too?
>
> Regards,
>
> atar.
>
I think I saw similar issues once, and the problem was that the USB
port was not providing enough power. Does the hub have any way of
attaching an external power source?
I.
>
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