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
