I've seen this behavior with a completely different device - a usb/serial converter. The device was flaky, but removing USB2.0 support (rmmod ehci_hcd) before plugging in the device made it work.
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Nelson Serafica <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm trying to mount a seagate portable hard drive. I can mount this > device on my other machine except for this machine wherein every time I put > the device, it was not being recognize. The led of the portable device just > keeps on blinking. When I do fdisk -l, I don't see the device. When I do > dmesg, I found the ff: > > usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 > usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 > usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 > usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 > usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 > usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 4 > usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 > usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 5 > usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 > usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > > I used to mount this hard drive before and it was doing fine except last > month wherein I cannot mount it anymore. I don't want to reboot and use > LiveCD just to backup my files because other people are also using this > machine. I tried to use other usb slot but still the same. I'm using CentOS > 5.3 minimal installation. > > Would anyone give a suggestion? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
