From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261534AbVGSTdc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:33:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261481AbVGSTdc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:33:32 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:5387 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261534AbVGSTdb (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:33:31 -0400 Message-ID: <42DD5416.6030608@opersys.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:27:18 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Weird USB errors on HD References: <42DD2EA4.5040507@opersys.com> <20050719192918.GA19803@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050719192918.GA19803@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546