External HD not recognized on Debian 3.1

colindo · 02-21-2006, 10:56 AM

Well, I've got an external (usb 2.0) hard disk with integrated usb hub, and I'm trying to make it work on Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 (I guess) kernel - a completely fresh install, so at the moment I only have the basic system and an X-server with KDE working. The disk has a big FAT32 (~190GB) and a smaller NTFS (~90GB) partition, which works perfectly fine on Windows, but on Linux I can't figure out what exactly is wrong with it.

dmesg | grep usb leaves me with

Code:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 09:50:48 Aug 17 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1840, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-71)
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-71)
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x47) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1671
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb1:2.0

To me as a Linux newbie it looks like something is wrong, but I got no idea at all, where to start. Does anyone have an idea or a good howto?

satinet · 02-22-2006, 05:00 AM

try 'lsusb'

and try 'uname -a' to get your kernel version.

2.4.x kernels aren't so hot on usb stuff. nonetheless, it should work ok.

colindo · 02-22-2006, 06:17 AM

So, lsusb gives

Code:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0047 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0

and the kernel version is 2.4.27-2-386 as I supposed.

satinet · 02-22-2006, 06:20 AM

it doesnt look like the device is being recognised at all.

does the hub work?

colindo · 02-22-2006, 06:28 AM

My mouse, at least, does not work when connected through the hub, so I guess it doesn't work at all.

satinet · 02-22-2006, 06:41 AM

maybe yuo should try udev and a newer kernel??