On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Nicolas Linkert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've a strange USB 2.0 problem. Whenever I attach a USB mass storage
> device to my USB ports (no matter whether the port is in the back or the
> front of the PC) it simply won't work. When I get rid of the ehci module
> and load the ohci module, the PC recognizes the USB hard disk without
> any problem.
> Yes, it is a USB 2.0 hard disk.
> Yes, the ports themselves are 2.0 (BTW: Is it possible that they're
> "half broken"? Working only in USB 1.1 mode?)
> 
> The error message I get for the USB hard disk:
> 
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
> usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
> usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
> usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 2-1: device not accepting address 7, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
> usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
> usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -110
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
> usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -110

The ports must be working somewhat.  Otherwise you wouldn't get those 
"unable to read config index 0" messages.

> The same error messages apply for a USB stick.
> 
> After removing ehci and using ohci:
> 
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb-storage: device found at 5
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: ST325082  Model: 4A                Rev: 0811
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdc: sdc1
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> 
> Huh? I don't get it. Maybe anyone here can enlighten me.
> BTW: mobo is Asus K8N-DL with nforce4 chipset.

The devices are unable to communicate properly with your computer.  Do any 
high-speed devices work at all?  Maybe your EHCI host controller isn't 
working very well.

Alan Stern


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