Okay so here is my scenario, I have a LaCie F800 w/ a Debian (Woody) running kernel 2.4.27 : (uname -a output is 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux). I have a USB keyboard attached to the one of two USB ports available on the computer, and the other port is for the LaCie F800. Whenever I detach the LaCie F800 and then reatch it, I get the following output errors in dmesg:

hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 7
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 8
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)

When I try detaching and reatching the other device (my keyboard) absolutly nothing comes up in dmesg as if nothing ever happend. I'm most positive I'm runnin a USB 1.0 or 1.1 USB controller and that the LaCie is USB 2.0 but I didn' think that would be a huge deal because I'm just trying to get it work and don't really care right now about 12mb/s or 480mb/s.

When I do "lsmod | grep usb" the I get the following:

usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usb-storage 54496 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [scanner usb-uhci usb-storage]
ide-core 91832 0 [ide-scsi piix usb-storage ide-disk ide-detect ide-cd]
scsi_mod 86052 3 (autoclean) [ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod aic7xxx]


I've also tried doing "modprobe sd_mod" and "modprobe usb-storage" and all seems to work. I have "sd_mod" and "usb-storage" enabled in /ect/modules as well. If anyone could help that would be extremlly helpful.
Also, here is the output from "cat /prob/bus/usb/devices":

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=ff80
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms


Thank you very much for your help, hopefully will hear some goodness soon!

licued

Hi.

Did you unmount the drive before you detached it?

Dave

unmount which drive? There's nothing to umount if you can't mount it period :P. I was never able to mount the drive because it dosen't recognize it, so...

Hi again.

I think this is one of two things. Either you drive isn't supported by your kernel version (have a look here: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kern.../Jul/0586.html ) or it's an ACPI problem. Is there an ACPI module loaded? I'm not sure how Debian builds its kernels, so I don't know if ACPI is usually compiled in, or a module. Either way, on my machine, some USB devices (sound cards and drives, usually) aren't recognised until ACPI is in use.

Dave

Hey , I got it to work finally! It was actually a problem with the device, for some weird reason I had to turn it on and off, and then it worked *shrugs*. Kinda weird but hey, that's the solution!! Take care, and thanks again all .