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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
