[Linux-usb-users] Computer freezes with USB 2.0 external hard drive

[T. Egbert]

I recently added a USB 2.0 interface card (ADS Technologies USB Turbo 
2.0) to my AMD Athlon box running Red Hat 9 and its stock 2.4.20-8 
kernel.  I also thought it would be nice to have an external USB 2.0 
hard drive for backups and what have you and purchased some gear for 
that purpose as well (ADS Technologies USB 2.0 Hard Drive Kit and 
Western Digital 120 GB IDE Hard Drive).

The problem I'm having is that as soon as I plug the external drive into 
one of the USB 2.0 ports, everything freezes on my machine, and I have 
to power cycle to reboot.  I can connect and successfully mount (RW) a 
Lexar JumpDrive storage device through the USB 2.0 port, and can also 
connect the external hard drive to one of the preexisting USB 1.1 ports.

In fact, I partitioned the external drive and created an ext2 file 
system on the it through the USB 1.1 port (yes, it took awhile).  After 
partitioning and making the file system, the drive mounts (RW) just fine 
on the USB 1.1 port, but still freezes the computer up when plugged into 
the USB 2.0 port, before I can even try mounting it.

Any thoughts on how to fix this (or even trouble shoot it)?

Tim



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