From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262270AbVG0CkJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:40:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262169AbVG0CkI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:40:08 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:31451 "EHLO pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262355AbVG0CkC (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:40:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:34:10 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Weird USB errors on HD In-reply-to: <4s66H-2ai-19@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <42E6F2A2.7060405@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4s3BX-8X-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4s66H-2ai-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4s66H-2ai-19@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/