Kingston pen drive

apffal · 06-26-2007, 05:37 PM

I' using a Kingston DataTraveler pen drive in Opensuse 10.2
It is automatically recognized when inserted - but after a while the pen disconnects itself and I need to reinsert it to use it again.
Can someone helps ?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 06-27-2007, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by apffal

I' using a Kingston DataTraveler pen drive in Opensuse 10.2
It is automatically recognized when inserted - but after a while the pen disconnects itself and I need to reinsert it to use it again.
Can someone helps ?

I have been having the same problem. At first I thought the problem was my Kingston DataTraveler, but the same thing would happen to my external usb drives too. Now I think it's something to do with the usb ports and Linux. If I bootup with anything already plugged in, the ports works fine, no disappearing DataTraveler or external drives.

b0uncer · 06-27-2007, 02:04 AM

Do you happen to use some kind of "sleep" thing in your USB ports, so that they power off after some idle time? I must admit I've never seen this "in action" myself but some techie "helpdesk" dudes I call from work tend to suggest that once in a while if I'm having problems with USB keys vital to some systems..

apffal · 06-27-2007, 05:21 AM

I've that problem even when I boot with the pen already inserted.
But it happens only in Suse - I used the same pen in other distributions (Fedora, Debian) before and worked fine.
Any ideas how to solve this ?