USB external hard drive - Western Digital MyBook
gary
garys at mtaonline.net
Sat Oct 28 06:11:10 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 01:40 -0400, Ken Schutte wrote:
> I've got this new Western Digital MyBook 500GB external hard drive, but
> when I plug it in, it's not recognized correctly. There doesn't seem to
> be any corresponding devices in /dev/. It looks like some errors:
>
> dmesg gives:
>
> usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
> usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
> usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
> usb 3-1: device descriptor read/8, error -75
> usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>
> /sbin/lsusb gives:
>
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0928:ffff Oxford Semiconductor, Ltd
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 4.
>
Try a different (early) kernel. I seem to remember getting those errors
with some kernels. ---gary
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