hi all, there is the same issue here on my iBook G4 with 2.6.38-rc4 thus it isn't an issue related to ppc64. It's not possible to use it.
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=1010 usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-2: Product: External HDD usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Western Digital usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 57442D575839304138394D31313237 scsi3 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 3200BEV External 1.75 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk cheers, Nel _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev