Re: curious USB hard drive problem
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0000, Mihira Fernando wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote:
> >I have a 2.5" Toshiba MK1032GAX hard drive in a USB powered
> >enclosure which doesn't seem to work properly with Debian.
> >
> >I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen anything similar, or
> >has any ideas about what might be happening...
> >
> >The curious thing is that I am fairly sure that the drive is
> >ok, because if I put it into an older (looks like the same
> >product but with older PCB version) enclosure it boots without
> >error.
> >
> >But if I plug the problem enclosure into a Windows system with
> >the same hard drive installed it works fine, making it hard to
> >justify returning the enclosure as faulty. I have also tried
> >booting a different version of Linux (Foundry) from different
> >media and it can access the drive without problem.
> >
> >Hence it is starting to look like an issue with this Debian
> >kernel and this particular USB HDD enclosure.
> >
> >The symptoms I see are that the boot starts normally
> > Lilo reads the kernel and initrd successfully
> > The kernel reports the HDD manufacturer/model/capacity correctly
> > Then...
> > sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> > SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
> > sda: Write Protect is off
> > sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> > sda:<6>usb 1-2 : reset high speed USB device using ehci_hdc and
> > address 2
> > usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> > sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
> >
> >The Debian install is Etch using RC1 install and kernel 2.6.18-3-486.
> >(the original 2.6.17 kernel behaves the same).
> >
> >Does anyone have any ideas of what might be missing from this
> >particular enclosure that would effect Debian but not Windows
> >or Foundry Linux?
> >
> >Regards,
> >DigbyT
> Did you try it after installing hal and pmount ?
The Debian install was done with the older (working)
enclosure, so everything seems to be there. pmount
and hal are installed - is there any configuration
that needs to be done to try what you have in mind?
Regards,
DigbyT
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