I have seen this, but in my case Windows did not have the problems. In my case if I booted from power off the enclosure was recognized. Also, this seems to vary with different enclosures, so for instance my Roseweil had more problems, the ones from Startec had less problems. Also, recent kernels may help as well. Adam Myrow <myrowa at bellsouth.net> wrote: > I recently purchased a Seagate Backup+ 1TB USB external hard drive. > It works perfectly if I connect it after Linux is booted, but if it is > plugged in when the computer first boots, it never gets > recognized. Linux produces an error containing "device descriptor > read/all, error -110." I've searched Google for this error, but > haven't found anything about it. The drive also is not seen by > Windows unless it is plugged in after the boot starts. Before I > assume the drive is defective, I wanted to check if anybody else has > ran into this. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com