USB external hard drive - Western Digital MyBook

[Ken Schutte <kschutte csail mit edu>]

I've got this new Western Digital MyBook 500GB external hard drive, but 
when I plug it in, it's not recognized correctly.  There doesn't seem to 
be any corresponding devices in /dev/.  It looks like some errors:

dmesg gives:

usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4

/sbin/lsusb gives:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0928:ffff Oxford Semiconductor, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I'm running Fedora Core 4.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.