Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757626Ab0GDNC6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:02:58 -0400 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:46786 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757451Ab0GDNC5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:02:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:02:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Paul Sheer cc: Kernel development list , Pete Zaitcev , , , , Matthew Dharm , , Subject: Re: USB mass storage fails to register on kernel 2.6.32 In-Reply-To: <1278230583.6443.27.camel@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1918 Lines: 46 On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Paul Sheer wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a Samsung Story external USB-2.0 1.5TB drive that fails to > detect as a device in more recent kernel versions. Full kmsg details > are below. Note that a USB thumb drive works fine on my system. > Older kernels work fine with the Samsung also. In terms of which > version of the kernel this stopped working, this I don't know. Are you certain this is related to the kernel version and isn't just a bad USB connection or something of that sort? Have you tried plugging the Samsung drive into a different computer running a recent kernel? > My kmsg output when plugging in the drive is as follows: > > > <6>[ 244.624034] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 3 > <3>[ 244.780033] usb 1-10: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > <3>[ 245.036030] usb 1-10: device descriptor read/64, error -32 > <6>[ 245.252038] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 4 > <3>[ 245.862496] usb 1-10: unable to read config index 0 > descriptor/start: -71 > <3>[ 245.862615] usb 1-10: chopping to 0 config(s) > <3>[ 245.979496] usb 1-10: string descriptor 0 read error: -71 > <4>[ 245.980413] usb 1-10: no configuration chosen from 0 choices These -71 errors are what you typically get when a device stops responding or the USB signals aren't transmitted properly. > I will be unsubscribing from these lists after sending this bug > report, so please contact me directly if you need more info at > paulsheer at gmail You know, it's not necessary to subscribe to the mailing lists before posting messages on them. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/