hi i also have the same problem i bought an SATA to USB case and put my old sata disk in. and it don't work on karmic ...
i did sudo killall devkit-disks-daemon sudo strace -vftt -s 1024 -o /tmp/dk-disks.trace /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon saw some text on screen put the usb drive in saw some other text on screen wait a little, then did a CTRL + C here is the bzip2 version, hope this will help ** Attachment added: "dk-disks.trace.bz2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29537575/dk-disks.trace.bz2 -- External SATA->USB Drive gives lots of USB resets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs