On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, 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?
Like Matt said, it would help to see the complete system log starting from the time you plugged in the drive. You could also get a usbmon trace (see the instructions in the kernel source file Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt). 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
