My usb drive was under warranty so I had it replaced. Now everything is working fine, with docking station also. One suggestion I have is that if a USB device is rejecting address like this, can it be switched to uhci from ehci after N number of tries instead of trying continuously ? On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Alan Stern<stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Jithin Emmanuel wrote: > >> Some stats on this issue. I have a 320 GB portable hdd. So after >> partitioning I am left with 298 GB. When I have about 150 GB free >> space there is no problem. This starts appearing when the free space >> further drops and approaches around 100 GB. >> This hdd behaves same in other computers also. > > So it appears that you were right, there is a bug in the disk drive. I > have no idea how we could work around it. > > There is a way you can force the drive to connect using UHCI instead of > EHCI. Then at least you wouldn't have to suffer through 10 to 30 > minutes of failed connection attempts. But you wouldn't be able to > transfer data at high speed. > > The command to use is something like this: > > echo 5 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2/../usb_host/companion > > You might have to add an extra directory level between the "usb_host" > and the "companion" parts of the path; I'm not sure. The "5" is the > port number from the error messages and the "2" is the hub number. > > Alan Stern > > -- Thanks Jithin Emmanuel Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
