Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 20:27 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:12:55 -0700 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > "lsusb -t" will show you what ports things are plugged into. The > > backups might have been working but was it running at USB3 speeds or > > just USB2? The cable might be

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 18:57 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > OK, I pulled every USB device one at a time till dmesg stopped > printing this error. The device that finally made it stop > was a USB 3 backup drive. I plugged it back in to the exact > same usb port, and the messages did not start back up.

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:12:55 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > "lsusb -t" will show you what ports things are plugged into. The > backups might have been working but was it running at USB3 speeds or > just USB2? The cable might be perfectly fine for USB2, but it sounds > like the system thought it

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/11/20 5:08 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:58:33 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: computers and their hardware being fickle, it may well start up again once you actually try using it for backup. :( Weirdly, the backups seem to have been working fine, so I'm very confused by what it

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:58:33 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > computers and their hardware being fickle, it may well start up > again once you actually try using it for backup. :( Weirdly, the backups seem to have been working fine, so I'm very confused by what it might have been complaining about.

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 06:57:10PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:37:28 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > DMESG shows this cable bad message once every 5 seconds, which > > is a bit annoying. > > OK, I pulled every USB device one at a time till dmesg stopped > printing this

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/11/20 3:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:37:28 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: DMESG shows this cable bad message once every 5 seconds, which is a bit annoying. OK, I pulled every USB device one at a time till dmesg stopped printing this error. The device that finally made it

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:37:28 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > DMESG shows this cable bad message once every 5 seconds, which > is a bit annoying. OK, I pulled every USB device one at a time till dmesg stopped printing this error. The device that finally made it stop was a USB 3 backup drive. I plugged

usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
What on earth is this message about? usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad? earlier in dmesg it says: usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 5.05 usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 usb usb2: Product: xHCI