Comment # 16 on bug 1161564 from Oliver Neukum

(In reply to Harald Brennich from comment #15)
> Created attachment 829136 [details]
> dmesg when plugging in USB2 port
> 
> When plugging in a USB2 port the device stile doesn't work, but dmesg looks
> slightly different.

For the record, this is a crash followed by a failed reset.

[23416.789486] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[23448.069949] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[23453.433640] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[23469.049255] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[23469.285385] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[23474.425154] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[23490.040812] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[23490.276788] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[23495.288675] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Timeout while waiting for setup device
command
[23500.664610] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Timeout while waiting for setup device
command
[23500.872500] usb 1-4: device not accepting address 8, error -62

That this fails under different speeds indicates that we should approach this
from the angle of not crashing the device.

Please try:
usb-storage.quirks=2109:0711:bfm