Hallo Alan, thanx for your support. You are right, I am running a Suse 9.2 with an older kernel, but with my Ubuntu Laptop 6.06 LTS with newest official updates and a newer kernel (but still not the newest) the same problem appears. Here some additional infos.
> What happens when you try to run fdisk? linux:/home/www # fdisk /dev/sda Konnte /dev/sda nicht lesen l Axel: Sorry its a German system, I also did su before. It says, can't read the device. > > What shows up in the dmesg log when you first plug in the > drive usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using address 5 usb 5-2: Product: USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE usb 5-2: Manufacturer: Super Top usb 5-2: SerialNumber: ?????????? scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Hitachi Model: HDT725032VLAT80 Rev: 0 0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda:SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 625142440 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 78142805 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 625142440 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 78142805 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 unable to read partition table Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 5 > and when you try to run fdisk? SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 1 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 16 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 2 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 24 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 3 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 32 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 40 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 5 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 48 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 6 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 56 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 7 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 64 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 8 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 72 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 9 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 80 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 10 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 88 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 11 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 104 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 13 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 112 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 14 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 120 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 15 SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x10070000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 > > What shows up if you turn on CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and rebuild > the USB drivers? I am probably not expierienced enough to try rhat. Thanx, Axel Poeschmann _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
