Re: USB external hard drive - Western Digital MyBook

[Ken Schutte <kschutte csail mit edu>]

gary wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 01:40 -0400, Ken Schutte wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>  Try a different (early) kernel. I seem to remember getting those errors
> with some kernels. ---gary

hmm.. trying a bunch of old kernels to get this working is not exactly 
what I'd like to do...  Well, if anyone uses this drive, or knows what 
that error means, please let me know.

Thanks.