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Re: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive



On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:04:51AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> The other night I plugged a thumb drive into a Belkin 4-port USB hub.
> This had the side effect of disconnecting an Iomega USB drive that was
> plugged into the same hub.
> 
> I have since been unable to reproduce the problem, but I'm concerned
> about the possibility of data loss when a drive gets disconnected like
> that.
> 
> The system is running Xfce on Debian Testing.
> 
> Linux allegro 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I've put the relevant excerpt from /dev/log/syslog below.
> 
> A couple questions:
> 
> - Do I need to have a reproducible test case before opening a bug?

If it is not reproducible, then how does one go about fixing it?

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