On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:15:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Elladan wrote: > > It seems like > > the problem is just that Linux gives up on the device much too early. > > Alternatively, is there some way to ask Linux to scan this device again? > > "rmmod usb-storage" followed by "modprobe usb-storage".
The problem with this is that I have other usb-storage devices. I'd need a way to just re-probe the one that failed. > > Here's the device powering on while plugged in: > > > > usb 3-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 > > scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > > usb-storage: device found at 9 > > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > > usb 3-1.3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 > > scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 2 channel 0 id > > 0 lun 0 > > usb-storage: device scan complete > > Sounds like the USB interface in the enclosure isn't working very well. What's the business with "waiting for the device to settle before scanning" ? I read this as meaning that it just had some timeout in there to deal with these devices taking a while to start up. > Suspicious-looking messages there. > > > SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) > > sdc: assuming drive cache: write through > > SCSI device sdc: 4294967295 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) > > sdc: assuming drive cache: write through > > sdc: sdc1 > > Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 > > usb-storage: device scan complete > > You don't think this rather sad IDE disk actually has a 2199 GB capacity? > More likely the enclosure is sending back bogus data. It returned -1 sectors... A bit odd, but clearly a magic number and not garbage. -J _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
