Michael Fox wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:39:32 +1100 (EST), Grant Parnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds like this could be a power issue. If the external device has a
plug-pack option, try this with the laptop.
That was my thoughts too. The poster never got back to us and said its a laptop ide drive in a laptop usb case or not. I assumed it was, but it might of been a desktop drive + case.
*shrugs*
I still think power at this stage though. Seen it happen heaps of times on various portable drives other work people have had/used.
Several people gave me good options.
Trying to work through options in an ordered mannor.
The power issue next.
I took out the windows cd to try and find instructions to test the power issue.
<quote>
If the drive installed is 60gig or less then one connector of teh usb cable is sufficient for power. If more than 60gig, (it is a 60 gig drive) then you use both the usb connectors on the cable to provide enough power.
</quote>
So I tried both the usb connectors on the cable into two usb ports. (hence double the power)
This gave a differnet set of errors:
from tail /var/log/messages
Mar 23 17:35:49 solo kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo usb.agent[6981]: usb-storage: loaded successfully
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Mar 23 17:35:50 solo kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Mar 23 17:37:11 solo kernel: usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Mar 23 17:37:12 solo kernel: usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Mar 23 17:37:12 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Mar 23 17:37:12 solo kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
from dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -19 usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 usb-storage: device scan complete usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
and from dmesg | grep scsi
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
So sorry I have not responded quickly I needed this for a site visit and had to work around the problem of not being able to use it. I'd still like to get thi working if at all possible.
Thanks for teh hints and patients.
Regards,
Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
