[olug] problems with external USB device

[Sam Tetherow]

Haven't seen that one before, what distro are you running? Suse and 
Ubuntu the automount has never done anything like that to me before. I 
would hazard a guess that the correct modules aren't loaded (make sure 
usb-storage and general usb drivers are loaded prior to plugging in).

Slightly offtopic:

Does anyone else have problems in general with external USB enclosures 
on linux? I've had 3 different enclosures and all 3 will corrupt the 
drive if I leave them plugged in for any real lenght of time (more than 
a day, sometimes much sooner). It will throw general IO errors when 
trying to read or write and occasionally it will corrupt the file system 
on the drive (both reiserfs and ext3). In one case it was trashed beyond 
fsck's ability to repair.

Anyone else have similar bad luck or am I just cursed?

Sam Tetherow

Jon Larsen wrote:
> Is the hard drive a USB-bus powered device or does it have it's own 
> power brick?
>
> My bus-powered USB hard drive has two usb connectors to get enough voltage 
> to spin up the drive and power the ATA2USB interface.
>
> If you have a self-powered USB hub, give that a try.  Some of the older 
> motherboard mounted USB connectors couldn't ouput enough power for 
> devices to work properly.
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Ryan Stille wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:28:58 -0600
>> From: Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
>> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>> Subject: [olug] problems with external USB device
>>
>> I'm trying to get an external USB hard drive working with my Dell 
>> server.   When I plug it in, there is nothing logged in messages.  lsusb 
>> locks up and I can't get out of it with Ctrl+C or even kill -9.  Same 
>> problem with usbmodules and even lsmod.
>>
>> If I unplug the usb drive, all these commands return to the shell, and I 
>> am then able to run them again properly.  I don't think its a problem 
>> with the drive because it works ok on a windows machine.  I also tried a 
>> second drive, a flash memory stick, and had the same problems.
>>
>> The USB controller is detected, lspci shows:
>> 00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05)
>>
>> Its also detected upon boot up:
>> dmesg | grep usb
>> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>> usbcore: registered new driver hub
>> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
>> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
>> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
>>
>> When the drive is not plugged in, lsusb returns:
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -Ryan
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OLUG mailing list
>> OLUG at olug.org
>> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>>
>>     
>
>