One bit more: Identified the bridge controller: JMicron JMS539 "SuperSpeed USB to SATA II 3.0G Bridge". http://www.jmicron.com/Product_JMS539.htm http://www.jmicron.com/PDF/JMS539/JMS539.PDF It possible that the bug only appears when a Western Digital drive is attached with this controller. So far only WDC drives have been tested in the failure scenario. -- 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