On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Michel wrote: > Hi, > > i'm in great trouble, > > i bought a "Lacie Mobile Disk 250 GB USB 2.0 HI-speed", but it seems not > recognized by my computer. > The device seems locked when i connect it to a USB port, the diode blue > light remains on, > and i can hear a litttle "tick" every second near the disk, i didn't > heard the disk turning. feels like it is blocked. > - dmesg displays nothing before and after plug-in the device > - the scan of the connected usb port by usbmon reports nothing at all. Does the disk drive run off power from the USB bus? These symptoms sound like it isn't getting enough power. Alan Stern -- 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