From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird USB errors on HD
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:34:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E6F2A2.7060405@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4s66H-2ai-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 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?
Not really.. It seems like pretty much a matter of the controller saying
it can supply so much power, the drive says it uses so much power, but
one of them is lying and the drive ends up tripping the overcurrent.
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2005-07-27 2:34 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-07-27 3:31 ` Weird USB errors on HD Grant Coady
2005-07-19 16:47 Karim Yaghmour
2005-07-19 19:29 ` Greg KH
2005-07-19 19:27 ` Karim Yaghmour
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
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