On Thursday 25 September 2008 09:34:28 Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > i am encountering an interesting (and annoying) problem. when the > external USB harddrive is plugged in during boot (i have dell d430 with > d/port port replicator - the drive is connected to one of the usb ports > on the d/port), i can hear it spinning in the very beginning, but then > it powers down and won't get recognized. it's neither shown in > /dev/disk/by-uuid nor do the udev rules apply to create the node in /dev. > > apparently, it has something to do with this error showing up approx. 4 > seconds after the boot start, at the time when the drive spins. > > usb 5-8.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 > usb 5-8.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > usb 5-8.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > usb 5-8.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 > usb 5-8.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > usb 5-8.3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > usb 5-8.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 > usb 5-8.3: device not accepting address 7, error -32 > usb 5-8.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 > usb 5-8.3: device not accepting address 8, error -32 > > since after unplugging and plugging again, the harddrive is recognized, > udev plays its part and i am getting the respective device nodes in /dev. > > usb 5-8.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 > usb 5-8.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usb 5-8.3: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c15 > usb 5-8.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 > usb 5-8.3: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge > usb 5-8.3: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Inc. > usb 5-8.3: SerialNumber: SAMSUNG HDS0MUJ2KP933468 > usb-storage: device found at 10 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > usb-storage: device scan complete > scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access SAMSUNG HD501LJ PQ: 0 ANSI: > 2 scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 > Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > sda: sda1 > sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk > > this is on lenny/amd64 with up-to-date installation. on my previous > laptop with etch, even when the drive was present on boot, it would be > recognized and taken care of by udev, iirc (it would spin immediatelly > on boot start and then once more during the boot procedure). > > does anybody have any hint as how to proceed from here? > > thanks, > lubos > > > -- > Lubos _@_" > http://www.lubos.vrbka.net Lubos, My first thought would be to try without the D/Port, as in connect the drive to one of the machines USB ports and see if that works... I have never used a D/Port, so I'm shooting in the dark as it were :) but I do remember someone once before had an issue with devices on a D/Port... PS. maybe also try the debian-laptop list HTH -- Thank you, Clifford W. Hansen PHP Developer / Linux Administrator (Cell) +27 82 883 8677 (Fax) +27 86 503 0634 (E-Mail) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (MSN) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (GPG) 0x936D6C19 "We have seen strange things today!" () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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