| Mike H 2004-09-15, 11:11 am |
| I was provided a Western Digital USB 2 / Firewire exernal disk
drive (250GB) to do some testing on Linux (Redhat 9) but I cannot
get started good.
I put on all the latest 'up2date' fixes and at least the system now
recgonizes that I have a USB controller on it. In /var/log/messages:
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1.2, assigned
address 3
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1242
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Device [Western Digital External HDD] on usb1:3.1
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1.4, assigned address 4
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x1058/0x600) is not claimed by any active driver.
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage deviceAu
So it found the device and is trying to define it as /dev/sda, but
then I get...
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 344
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 69
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 2025
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Device [Western Digital External HDD] on usb1:3.1
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 889
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 813
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: Vendor: WD Model: CR HS-CF Rev: 2.49
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Aug 27 15:22:48 cmhrh73 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
the "scsi: device set offline" does not sound good....
Then I get a number of slight variations of:
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: unable to read partition table
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Aug 27 15:23:39 cmhrh73 kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> Aug 27 15:23:51 cmhrh73 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 497
> Aug 27 15:23:51 cmhrh73 kernel: usbdevfs: process 1374 (lsusb) did not claim interface 1 before use
If I try to: fdisk /dev/sda
I get a "unable to read..." message.
Any suggestions how to get this device available?? I'd like to to
put a standard filesystem on it and be able to mount /umount as required...
Thanks
Mike
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