USB Errors Mounting External HDD

[Simon Andrews]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:42:42 +0100
> Simon Andrews <simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've got a LaCie 200Gb external USB HDD which I'm trying to use on one 
>>of our servers.  Unfortunately when I try to connect it I get a load of 
>>errors and can't access it.  The relevant portions of /var/log/messsages
> 
>>are:
> 
>>kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
>>kernel: usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110
> 
> 
> I occasionally get similar errors with a USB printer.  A workaround was to
> unplug the device then plug it in again.  The link below details the same
> thing, but with a flash drive:
> 
> See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=142716

I tried that, but it always seems to fail.  I found a lot of posts 
similar to the bugzilla entry you mentioned, but those all show error 
-71.  The error -110 does show up a few times (including on LKML a while 
back) and seems to be a different problem.

Cheers

Simon.