SuSE 10.1 USB HDD Problem

Mr.Gosh · 11-05-2006, 06:16 AM

i`ve got a fresh SuSE 10.1 installation, but my machine doesn`t reccognize my external usb drive, that works perfectly on my notebook with SuSE 10.1

tail -f /var/log/messages says:

Code:

COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
Nov  5 13:11:44 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21
Nov  5 13:11:45 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov  5 13:11:50 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov  5 13:11:50 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 22
Nov  5 13:11:52 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov  5 13:11:57 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov  5 13:11:57 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
Nov  5 13:12:02 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/all, error -110
Nov  5 13:12:02 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24
Nov  5 13:12:07 mrgoshbig kernel: usb 1-7: device descriptor read/all, error -110

Code:

lsusb
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0421:0415 Nokia Mobile Phones 9300 GSM Smartphone
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0c4b:0100 Reiner SCT Kartensysteme GmbH cyberJack e-com/pinpad
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 056a:00b5 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0518:0002 EzKEY Corp.
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 046d:c012 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 041e:4052 Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0424:2602 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0424:2502 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

are there any suggestions?

Mr.Gosh · 11-07-2006, 04:45 PM

OK, so noone knows how to manage usb problems in suse right?

Mr.Gosh · 11-10-2006, 02:56 AM

so what do you do, if your linux doesn`t reccognize your external HDD?

studiof451 · 11-16-2006, 06:44 PM

hi gosh,

i have the same problem with the "usb read/64 fault" at boot-time, but .. i found this bug with fedora-6, ubuntu-6.10 and all other linux-possibilities, too. maybe this is a kernel-bug? till now, i have no answer. but it is good to know, that is not a suse-special-bug. (i´am working with suse 10.1 also on msi k8n sli.) if you hear about any solution, tell me.

loop dundee

NDR008 · 11-16-2006, 06:46 PM

join the fun of USB hdd probs with suse - the only way i don't get problems is installing linux directly onto the USB drive, other than that, in the past 2 days i met all sorts of probs

Mr.Gosh · 11-17-2006, 11:17 AM

Oh man, I don`t know how they can ignore this. Every Distro has it`s problem - really anoying!!!

They can`t reach the Desktops with this quality

Mr.Gosh · 11-17-2006, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studiof451

"usb read/64 fault"

do you think it`s 64bit specific?

because my knoppix has no Problems on the same machine...

gSalsero · 03-02-2007, 01:21 AM

I just installed a usb 2.0 and firewire card I bought last year on my OpenSuse 10.0 machine. I believe it's a generic one sold at CompUsa, though "Hardware Information" says the vendor is ALi Corporation.

At any rate, I tried connecting an external hard drive to it, but it doesn't show up. I looked at dmesg, this is what it says.

usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 22
usb 5-6: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-6: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
usb 5-6: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-6: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24
usb 5-6: device not accepting address 24, error -71
usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 25
usb 5-6: device not accepting address 25, error -71

I did some googling and found this redhat thread:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg04044.html

after reading this, i decided to try out what they suggested. I ran the following command: modprobe -r ehci-hcd

after that, i reconnected my external hard drive and it was available in /dev and I was able to mount it just fine.

I am just wondering if there is anything I can do so I don't have to run the modprobe command. It's not an awful workaround, but if something is wrong with my system, I'd like to fix it.

any help would be appreciated. thanks.

My kernel version is: 2.6.13-15.13-smp

George

cheesus · 09-28-2007, 12:13 PM

same problem here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...09#post2906709

mcewena1 · 12-27-2007, 01:21 PM

I had the same problem and did what gSalsero said which was

run modprobe -r ehci-hcd as root

It then automounted and was accessible AS ROOT. (I couldn't change the permissions for some reason.)

If I disconnected the hard drive and reconnected there was no problem but if I turned off the computer I had to run it again.

Andy