USB HDD needs replugging?

indulekha thebeelzebubtrigger at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 15:37:22 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 17:18 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, there is a dmesg error:
> > 
> > ugen4.5: <(null)> at usbus4 (disconnected)
> > uhub_reattach_port:435: could not allocate new device!
> > 
> > But then just a few lines later, dmesg says:
> > 
> > ugen4.5: <Seagate> at usbus4
> > umass1: <Seagate Portable, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.30, addr 5> on usbus4
> > umass1:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
> > umass1:3:1:-1: Attached to scbus3
> > da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
> > da1: <Seagate Portable 0130> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
> > da1: 40.000MB/s transfers
> > da1: 305245MB (625142448 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 38913C)
> > 
> > I'm thinking there's some sort of power management scheme in the
> > Seagate that umass has trouble accommodating.
> 
> 
> Does your USB device have a separate power supply?
> 
> --HPS

No, it's one of those pocket-sized HDDs.
This one, actually:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SJZV10/ref=oss_product

-- 
caveat utilitor,
Indi



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