Sarah, That patch did appear to fix the problem of the USB 3.0 port "going dead", but there is now another issue that may or may not be related. Since the "port dead" problem is fixed, I will start another thread about the new issue. md -- 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