My USB drives are not recognised

[Paul King]

Yeah, I read that you were supposed to uninstall. But I don't know the name of 
the package to uninstall. Also, nothing found after snooping under 
/usr/share/firefox/*.

> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> When I had the problem with flash, I uninstalled all flash versions, then I
> tried the link that Tyler found and the one computer worked. I did the same with
> the other computer and found I had to expariment with which version worked.
> Which was not from Adobe. Why! I do not know! I does went with what worked. :)
> Sorry, can't help you on the USB issue.
> 
> Hope it helps!
> Abidel 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 9:04:27 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: My USB drives are not recognised
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
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