On Friday 01 January 2010 15:48:52 Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Hello
>
> My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive
> into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for
> additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to
> be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this
> morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore. I'm at a
> lost as to what to do now. Here's dmesg, or at least the parts
> portaining to usb devices:
does it make a difference if you disable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND, which can be done
by reloading the module "usbcore" with the option "autosuspend=-1" ?
>
> catherine dev # dmesg | grep usb
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
> usbcore: registered new device driver usb
> usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
> usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
> usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
> usb 3-2: device not accepting address 4, error -62
> usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> usb 3-2: device not accepting address 5, error -62
>
> and here is lsmod:
>
> catherine dev # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> nfsd 212004 9
> xt_DSCP 2676 17
> xt_multiport2512 4
> xt_tcpudp 2528 55
> iptable_nat 4308 1
> nf_nat 16104 1 iptable_nat
> xt_limit2036 27
> nf_conntrack_ipv4 11692 18 iptable_nat,nf_nat
> nf_defrag_ipv4 1668 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
> xt_state1780 15
> nf_conntrack 60044 4
> iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
> ipt_LOG 4896 27
> iptable_mangle 2268 1
> xt_string 1764 0
> ipt_ULOG5784 0
> iptable_filter 2260 1
> ip_tables 10264 3
> iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
> x_tables 14684 10
> xt_DSCP,xt_multiport,xt_tcpudp,iptable_nat,xt_limit,xt_state,ipt_LOG,xt_str
> ing,ipt_ULOG,ip_tables ipv6 216088 20
> snd_pcm_oss30740 0
> snd_mixer_oss 13456 2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_oss23496 0
> snd_seq_midi_event 6312 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq42988 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_seq_device 6352 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> lp 8184 0
> snd_intel8x0 26864 1
> snd_ac97_codec 93624 1 snd_intel8x0
> ac97_bus1456 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm60476 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
> sis900 17960 0
> ppdev 5752 0
> mii 4736 1 sis900
> shpchp 27540 0
> pcspkr 2204 0
> processor 35088 0
> pci_hotplug24584 1 shpchp
> snd_timer 18172 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> sis_agp 6640 1
> agpgart31260 1 sis_agp
> snd51020 9
> snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,s
> nd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 8168 2
> snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> button 5192 0
> rtc_cmos9432 0
> floppy 47372 0
> fan 4084 0
> rtc_core 15912 1 rtc_cmos
> rtc_lib 2620 1 rtc_core
> thermal12828 0
> parport_pc 32580 1
> thermal_sys12432 3 processor,fan,thermal
> tg395332 0
> libphy 21256 1 tg3
> e1000 103876 0
> fuse 52728 0
> xfs 428276 0
> exportfs3764 2 nfsd,xfs
> nfs 228192 1
> auth_rpcgss33564 2 nfsd,nfs
> nfs_acl 2612 2 nfsd,nfs
> lockd 59124 2 nfsd,nfs
> sunrpc169108 15 nfsd,nfs,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl,lockd
> jfs 151124 0
> raid10 19696 0
> dm_bbr 9656 0
> dm_snapshot22180 0
> dm_crypt 11148 0
> dm_mirror 13076 0
> dm_region_hash 10704 1 dm_mirror
> dm_log 8680 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
> dm_m
