Bug#601322: linux: USB drives not working anymore

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Benoît,

Benoît Dejean wrote:

> this bug is still here.
> I'm running:
>
> ii  linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64            2.6.38-4    Linux 2.6.38 for 64-bit PCs
> ii  udev                                  168-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
>
> My drives otherwise work fine using system-rescue-cd or if i 'modprobe -r
> ehci_hcd' (but then to slow to be usable, what's the point of having +1TB
> attached at < 1MB/s).
>
> But at the same time, any USB2 key works very fine.
> Is there some device discovery timeout ?
> Something related to power management ?

Did you report this upstream?  If not, could you test the latest
kernel from sid and then report it at bugzilla.kernel.org under
product 'Drivers', component 'USB' if it fails, sending us the bug
number?

Thanks.