Darren J Moffat wrote: 
> Juergen Keil wrote:
> >>> The timeouts never happen when I force the cpu frequency to anything
> >>> other than the slowest setting. That is, I've been using this shell
> >>> script hack to work around the usb timeout problem:
> >>>
> >>>         # avoid running in the slowest powernow state with the ASUS 
M2NPV-VM,
> >>>         # for some reason that breaks usb on the maxtor usb backup hdd
> >>>         date +"Backup is running: %T"
> >>>
> >>>         /usr/sbin/powernowadm manual
> >>>         sleep 5
> >>>         /usr/sbin/powernowadm slow
> >>>         /usr/sbin/powernowadm faster
> >>>
> 
> Tried this but it didn't make any difference.  I also tried uninstalling 
> the frkit powernow driver completely, and still I see exactly the same 
> timeouts.  I also tried updating /etc/power.conf to disable autopm and 
> run pmconfig (and rebooted) just in case but still no joy.

Too bad.
 
> Thanks for the suggestions, but we are stuck again and I have no idea 
> how to debug this part of the system.  Any hints ?


What is logged to the kernel's usb debug log, during such a device timeout?

Try to dump it with mdb's ::usba_debug_buf command.  This works best with
usb debug bit modules, they contain a lot more debug printfs than release
bits.  

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