On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Ivar Vasara wrote:

> *Hi there,
>     I'm relatively new to linux and found David and Alans posts 
> regarding a USB external HD enclosure*. I'm having what looks to be a 
> similar problem with my external HD enclosure as well; it works happily 
> under XP, but linux  ( 2.6.10-5-686 ) keeps spewing logs like below.. 
> 
> --sample logs from dmesg--
> usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 1-4: device not accepting address 50, error -71
> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 66
> usb 1-4: device not accepting address 66, error -71
> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 78
> usb 1-4: device not accepting address 78, error -71
> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 83
> usb 1-4: device not accepting address 83, error -71
> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 84
> usb 1-4: device not accepting address 84, error -71
> **--sample logs--
> 
> I'm not really comfortable modifying the kernel or anything quite that 
> low level, but is there anything I can do to get it working ? Is there a 
> place where I can look for more diagnostic data ? Also of possible note, 
> I noticed David's using a thinkpad - I'm using a thinkpad T40..

You can try using 2.6.11, which contains a fix for a problem that affects
lots of high speed devices during initialization.  If you want more
diagnostic information, select the USB verbose debugging option in the
kernel configuration.

Alan Stern



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