On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Glynn Clements wrote: > I tried one front-panel port then, when that didn't work, a back-panel > port. I've now tried all six ports: > > 1. All four back-panel ports produce error messages in the syslog > similar to those in my original post (i.e. "Medium Error"). > > 2. One of the front-panel ports (presumably the one I tried > originally) doesn't even get that far, disconnecting and reconnecting > repeatedly (sample log messages attached). > > 3. The other front-panel port works flawlessly. Nothing that looks > like an error message in syslog, drive mounts quickly, can be read and > written at ~25 Mbytes/sec, no sign of data corruption (files written > to the drive from the Linux box were verified from the Windows box). Weird. Maybe something's bad about the connections running from the motherboard to the exposed ports? Anyway, at least you can use the drive now. > Oh well; that's the immediate issue dealt with. Sorry about the noise > and thanks for the help. You're welcome. > I'm assuming that the problems with the other ports are down to > analogue issues, and won't be affected by anything on the software > side. Almost certainly. If this were software related, it would show up on all the ports. 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
