Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-17 Thread Brian Flaherty
Thank you all for your thoughts about the USB disk problems I'm having. I follow-up below. Kelly wrote: Have you tried it on different ports? Yes and no change. Do other USB devices (flash drives, keyboard/mouse, etc) work in the port(s) you are trying this disk on? Yes. What do you get

Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, I have two laptops: - Lenovo X201 running Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (also has 3.2.0-3-amd64 and 2.6.32-5-amd64) - Thinkpad X31 running an out-of-date Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-2-486 (haven't turned this one on in a while and consequently haven't updated packages) Also

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Brian Flaherty b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have two laptops: - Lenovo X201 running Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (also has 3.2.0-3-amd64 and 2.6.32-5-amd64) - Thinkpad X31 running an out-of-date Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-2-486 (haven't turned

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread sp113438
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:33:43 -0700 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Brian Flaherty b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have two laptops: - Lenovo X201 running Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (also has 3.2.0-3-amd64 and 2.6.32-5-amd64) -

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello, I've had a similar issue to this and in my case it was due to the wrong order the modules were loading. Try the following: 1. blacklist uhci-hcd and usbhid in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. - This forces ehci-hcd to load first. 2. Then once the system is up, manually modprobe

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you updated all of your usb drivers on that trouble machine yet? If memory serves update-usb-ids ought to do that for you. Run by root or something like root it's a script. Also, shut the trouble box down and leave it off for an entire minute then reboot. Finally maybe download the

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Jude DaShiell a écrit : Have you updated all of your usb drivers on that trouble machine yet? If memory serves update-usb-ids ought to do that for you. Not at all. update-usbids just updates the USB vendor/device ID database used by lsusb to display friendly names. It has nothing to