On Wed, 24 May 2006, Paul Surgeon wrote:

> Hi folks
> 
> I have an external USB 2.0 hard disk that works perfectly under Windows XP 
> but 
> won't work under Linux. The drive comes formatted as FAT32 from the factory.
> My USB 1.1 digital camera and USB 2.0 flash drive work fine under Linux but 
> not this external hard disk.
> 
> I get errors like this "usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110" when 
> I 
> plug it in or when I boot up with it connnected.
> Eventually I get a "scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: 
> host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0"
> /dev/sda gets removed when the device gets offlined. As this happens at 
> connect time I don't even have a chance to mount the disk.
> 
> Distro : Ubuntu Breezy
> Kernel version 2.6.12.6
> The dmesg output can be found here : http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/14562
> 
> Is this a bug in the USB modules?

No, it's a bug in your USB hard disk.

> What kernel version do I need to get around 
> the problem?

I'm not sure, but the latest version (2.6.16.something) should work.

Alan Stern



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