My USB drives are not recognised

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:04:27AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> I am having problems with USB functionality under the latest Ubuntu for
> 64-bit. I previously emailed that flash is VERY broken in 64-bit, and
> now this problem with my USB drives. I now miss my 32-bit machine.
> 
> Running dmesg, I get this over and over again:
> [   76.957312] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110)
> [   77.318014] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110)
> [   77.678692] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110)
> [   78.039382] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110)
> [   78.400071] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot reset port 3 (err = -110)
> [   78.400076] hub 6-2:1.0: Cannot enable port 3.  Maybe the USB cable
> is bad?

Are you using a usb hub?  If so try without it.

> After 5 or 6 of those, I get:
> [   87.237199] sd 7:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error
> recovery
> [   87.237209] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT
> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
> 
> Then, after a few more of the first kind of error, I get this as the
> final messages before it totally gives up:
> [   97.818282] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot disable port 2 (err = -110)
> [   98.827526] hub 6-2:1.0: cannot disable port 2 (err = -110)
> [   98.828407] sd 6:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error
> recovery
> [   98.828422] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT
> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
> [   98.828426] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 60227685
> [   98.828443] FAT: unable to read boot sector
> [  103.878999] hub 6-2:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110)
> [  108.148908] hub 6-2:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -110)
> 
> As for "bad usb cables", my drives work perfectly under Windows XP, and
> they are even used as network drives. Now admittedly I have had a new
> kernel install, but even going back to an old kernel version didn't fix
> the problem.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas about this?

Do they work under windows XP on the SAME machine?

After all testing on another machine just tells you your drives appear
fine, but doesn't tell you if a usb controller has failed on your linux
machine.

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Len Sorensen
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