My USB drives are not recognised

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 9 14:39:20 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 04:41:49PM -0500, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I've found that the high-speed USB drivers in linux can be VERY
> finicky at times. In a previous kernel version, my USB used to drop
> out all the time with I/O errors unless I removed the "ehci-hcd"
> driver (which also slows down USB considerably as that is the
> "high-speed" driver).
> 
> When I bumped up to 2.6.28 the problem went away, so I'm guessing it
> may have been an issue supporting the USB controller in my laptop.

It may actually be a recent udev change that broke USB.  I vaguely
recall reading something about a udev change in ubuntu messing up some
usb drives.  Not sure though.

The kernel change is much more likely though.

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