Setup is Red Hat 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0. SUB harddrive is Lacie PocketDrive 20 GB.

What I get when I do dmesg is:

Linux version 2.4.18-19.8.0
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usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 05:47:42 Dec 12 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x59f/0xa601) is not claimed by any active driver.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
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SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
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usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1864
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000380, flags 0, urb c1a2b0e0, burb c1a2b160
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6)
usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000380, flags 0, urb c1a2b0e0, burb c1a2b160
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6)
usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000380, flags 0, urb c1a2b0e0, burb c1a2b160
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6)
usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000380, flags 0, urb c1a2b0e0, burb c1a2b160
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6)
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-110)
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
ohci1394: pci_module_init failed
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usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

Can anytone point to where the possible problem might be? Where can I research to fix it?

I am a newbie to Linux, please if you can, help me.

Ed.

Just taking a couple of SWAGs. Does the drive work in windows?
If you unplug the drive do you still get USB errors? Is this a USB 2.0 that you are pluging into a USB 1.0 port?

What kind of hardware do you have?

michael, the drive does work with Windows perfectly well (It's where I keep my mp3 and mpeg. It's VFAT (FAT32). If I unplug the device nothing happens. This is a USB 1.0 device into a 1.0 port. My hardware is a Dell Latitude C600 laptop PC.

If I plug the device back in the USB slot I get:

Jan 16 22:25:42 edusilva-1 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1237
Jan 16 22:25:42 edusilva-1 kernel: usb.c: error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-84)
Jan 16 22:25:44 edusilva-1 last message repeated 7 times

And the usb device is not correctly detected.

Does this help? What other info do you need?