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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird USB errors on HD
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:27:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42DD5416.6030608@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050719192918.GA19803@kroah.com>


Greg KH wrote:
> Ugh, you have a bad device or power supply, or aren't giving it enough
> power to drive the thing.  Nothing we can do in Linux for that, sorry.
> Buy a wall-powered usb hub, that usually helps.

I have one. I naively thought I could just plug the drive directly to the
laptop without using the wall-powered hub. I'll try that instead. Thanks.

That being said, shouldn't there be a way for the kernel to refuse to
use this hd if it's not getting enough power. I don't know enough about
USB to say, but isn't there something more elegant that could be done in
software?

Karim
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-19 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-19 16:47 Weird USB errors on HD Karim Yaghmour
2005-07-19 19:29 ` Greg KH
2005-07-19 19:27   ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2005-07-19 19:40     ` Greg KH
2005-07-19 20:16   ` Lee Revell
2005-07-19 20:29     ` Greg KH
2005-07-20 14:53 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-07-26  2:16   ` Karim Yaghmour
     [not found] <4s3BX-8X-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4s66H-2ai-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4s66H-2ai-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-27  2:34     ` Robert Hancock
2005-07-27  3:31       ` Grant Coady

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