On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Andreas Theofilu wrote: > Hi, > > I bought an "USB 2.0 to IDE Dongle" and tried it with my Linux Box > (vanilla kernel 2.6.9). First I noticed, that it needs about 10 seconds to > detect the new device. I get the following into my syslog: > > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device > usingaddress 2 > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB MassStorage > devices > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: Vendor: Genesys Model: USB to IDE Disk > Rev: 0002 > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1667232 512-byte hdwr > sectors(854 MB) > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu udev: creating device node '/udev/sdb' > Nov 30 19:13:54 theofilu kernel: sdb: > > Here it detects the connected hard drive correct, but the last line seems > incomplete. > > A few seconds later I found this: > > > Nov 30 19:14:03 theofilu scsi.agent[6555]: Attribute > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.3/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0/type > does not exist > > > I'm not sure what this tells me. I guess this means that the USB > controller itself has given up? Is that possible? > > If I try to read or write from the device or even only call "lsusb", the > USB port hangs (Linux still works, only USB is death from now on!) and the > previous called command does never return nor I'm able to kill it. In the > process table the command has state "D" until I reboot. > > My motherboard is a MSI KT4V-L with a KT400 chipset. Until today I had no > such problems and every USB device I tried worked. But now I don't know > where to start searching to solve this problem. Is it the USB controller > or the USB dongle or do I need a patch?
It would be interesting to see the debugging information. You should turn on the USB verbose debugging and usb-storage verbose debugging options in the kernel configuration, and post the system log (from dmesg, for example) showing what happens when you plug in the device. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
