Re: Usb hard-disk wrongly claimed by ehci-hd module [SOLVED]
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:25, John O'Hagan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given the number of posts about usb device problems, I thought this might
> be of use: on a Thinkpad T40 running testing, my Lacie 40-gig usb drive was
> wrongly claimed by the ehci-hd module. This meant that the drive could not
> be mounted, and happened on kernels 2.6.16 and 2.6.17.
>
> (Strangely, on a similar no-name laptop using the same kernel config, there
> was no problem.)
>
Turns out this is a known issue on Thinkpad T40s; the USB2 thingy can be
damaged by static electricity, so only USB1 works. So the disk was
not "wrongly claimed" at all.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_USB_2.0
John
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