On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:00:08PM -0500, sean darcy wrote: > Alan Stern wrote: > >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 > > > > It's a dual boot desktop. XP sees the usb hard drive, and I can run the > WD extended diagnostics on the drive. > googling did show some other reports, e.g. > http://forum.freespire.org/archive/index.php/t-6479.html, but no solutions. > > Any linux diagnostics that would be useful?
Try rmmod'ing ehci_hcd.
Matt
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