USB Hard Drive

[Dr J Austin]

> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:20:57 -0700
> From: BC <fedora at networklifeline.net>
> Subject: USB Hard Drive
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> Anyone know how to get this external USB Hard Drive working ? It works
> under Gentoo no problem. Here is what I get when I plug it in
> 
> 
> scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [root at Penguin1 ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
> Nov 11 15:12:29 Penguin1 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
> Nov 11 15:13:15 Penguin1 kernel: usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 4
> Nov 11 15:13:27 Penguin1 kernel: usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 2
> Nov 11 15:13:31 Penguin1 kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device
> using address 5
> Nov 11 15:13:31 Penguin1 kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Nov 11 15:13:36 Penguin1 wait_for_sysfs[10301]: either wait_for_sysfs
> (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0' properly (no bus
> device link) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be
> fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Nov 11 15:13:46 Penguin1 hal.hotplug[10323]: timout(10000 ms) waiting
> for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0

If you are using FC3 then
I had a similar problem see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=3157

It would seem its a kernel bug !!!!

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:08:19PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> ouch...
>> Dr J Austin wrote:
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1024000 512-byte hdwr
> >sectors (524 MB)
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  sdb: sdb1
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  sdb: sdb1

> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui scsi.agent[6755]: disk at
> >/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.3/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/host3/3:0:0:0
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel: kobject_register failed for sdb1 (-17)
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<021db148>] kobject_register+0x31/0x39
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<021a8af2>] add_partition+0xb0/0xc0
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<021a8c34>] register_disk+0xf5/0x13f
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<0224ae32>] add_disk+0x2b/0x36
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<0224adf3>] exact_match+0x0/0x7
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<0224adfa>] exact_lock+0x0/0xd
> >Nov 10 23:17:26 maui kernel:  [<1e9ddccc>] sd_probe+0x361/0x3ba [sd_mod]
Known scsi bug.  Should be fixed in later kernel versions.

thanks,

greg k-h

John

Dr John Austin,
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