On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, seandarcy wrote: > I'm running Fedora 8: > > uname -r > 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 > > I connected my new Western Digital My Book 500G external drive to the > usb port. > > syslog: > > Jan 5 21:53:35 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 2 > Jan 5 21:53:50 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, > error -110 > Jan 5 21:54:05 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, > error -110 > Jan 5 21:54:05 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 3 > Jan 5 21:54:20 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, > error -110 > Jan 5 21:54:36 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, > error -110 > Jan 5 21:54:36 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 4 > Jan 5 21:54:41 testbox kernel: usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error > -110 > ................. > > Any help apprecoated.
It certainly looks like either the disk drive's USB interface or your computer's USB controller isn't working. You can try attaching the drive to a different computer or attaching different high-speed USB devices to your computer. That should indicate which component is at fault. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html