Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:02:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: USB mass storage fails to register on kernel 2.6.32 |
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On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Paul Sheer wrote:
> Hi there, > > I have a Samsung Story external USB-2.0 1.5TB drive that fails to > detect as a device in more recent kernel versions. Full kmsg details > are below. Note that a USB thumb drive works fine on my system. > Older kernels work fine with the Samsung also. In terms of which > version of the kernel this stopped working, this I don't know.
Are you certain this is related to the kernel version and isn't just a bad USB connection or something of that sort? Have you tried plugging the Samsung drive into a different computer running a recent kernel?
> My kmsg output when plugging in the drive is as follows: > > > <6>[ 244.624034] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 3 > <3>[ 244.780033] usb 1-10: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > <3>[ 245.036030] usb 1-10: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > <6>[ 245.252038] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 4 > <3>[ 245.862496] usb 1-10: unable to read config index 0 > descriptor/start: -71 > <3>[ 245.862615] usb 1-10: chopping to 0 config(s) > <3>[ 245.979496] usb 1-10: string descriptor 0 read error: -71 > <4>[ 245.980413] usb 1-10: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
These -71 errors are what you typically get when a device stops responding or the USB signals aren't transmitted properly.
> I will be unsubscribing from these lists after sending this bug > report, so please contact me directly if you need more info at > paulsheer at gmail
You know, it's not necessary to subscribe to the mailing lists before posting messages on them.
Alan Stern
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