Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

Peter N. Spotts

25 Apr 2006 25 Apr '06

21:42

Folks, I've got a Maxtor 300 GB outboard usb drive that I've been using with SuSE 10.0 on my Toshiba laptop Satellite-1905-303s) with no problems...until..sigh...I wanted to see what all the hoopla was about with Ubuntu (now donning flame-retardant clothes). I suspect I screwed something up because after returning to SuSE. The drive returned bad partition-table errors when I tried to mount it (although dmesg shows that the system was seeing it -- previous posts). Using the partitioner in Yast, I finally got it formatted as reisferFS and as a single partition, but access has been achingly slow compared with my pre Ubuntu testing period. And now, root is the only possible user. I try to chown as root and get a file/directory not found -- even though it's there. So I figured I'd try to reformat again and start from scratch. But SuSE's partitioner returns a -3002 error when I try to make a change. I can copy files and make directories, but only as root (which may not be a bad thing). Ultimately, I'd like to have the drive accessible as user and try to return it to some semblance of its former speed. (Interestingly, when I reboot, the drive doesn't activate until once the machine is running and I pull out the usb plug and put it back -- shouldn't it get recognized during boot-up?) I suspect I've gotten myself in a bit over my head on this one... With best regards, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

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Carl Hartung

25 Apr 25 Apr

22:50

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 17:42, Peter N. Spotts wrote: <snip> Hi Peter, Can you please post the output of the following (as root) when the drive is attached and accessible?: 1) lsmod | grep hci_ 2) cat /etc/fstab 3) fdisk -l /dev/... ['l' = lower case L; ... = usb drive, e.g. 'sda'] regards, Carl

Peter N. Spotts

26 Apr 26 Apr

00:26

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

Here you go:

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1) lsmod | grep hci_

uhci_hcd 32016 0 usbcore 112512 7 usblp,usb_storage,ndiswrapper,slusb,usbhid,uhci_hcd

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2) cat /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

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3) fdisk -l /dev/... ['l' = lower case L; ... = usb drive, e.g. 'sda']

Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 36482 293041633+ 83 Linux And just for kicks, the final installment of dmesg: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8204 Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1) ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6 usb 1-2.4: USB disconnect, address 7 usb 1-2.7: USB disconnect, address 8 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-2:1.0: 7 ports detected usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 10 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-2.7: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 11 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8204 Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1) ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names With best regards, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

Carl Hartung

01:20

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 20:26, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Here you go: <snip>

Hi Peter, Try this, as root, after you've disconnected the drive from the system: rmmod uhci_hcd modprobe ehci_hcd lsmod | grep ehci (to check that the module has loaded successfully) dmesg (check for errors) If nothing appears to be amiss, connect the drive, check it's performance and post the results. regards, Carl

Peter N. Spotts

21:37

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

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Hi Peter,

Try this, as root, after you've disconnected the drive from the system:

rmmod uhci_hcd modprobe ehci_hcd lsmod | grep ehci (to check that the module has loaded successfully) dmesg (check for errors)

If nothing appears to be amiss, connect the drive, check it's performance and post the results.

regards,

Carl

Hi Carl, And thanks in advance for your patience on this... After running steps 1 and 2, I lost my mouse (using a USB mouse!) but... Did the lsmodprobe ... > filename to save the contents and got: ehci_hcd 32136 0 usbcore 112512 7 ehci_hcd,usblp,usb_storage,ndiswrapper,slusb,usbhid Then I sent the dmesg to a file and -- after rebooting to regain my mouse -- found no obvious errors. But at the risk of taking up some space, and in case I missed some subtlty, the output went something like this: Linux version 2.6.13-15.8-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000002fef0000 - 000000002feff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000002feff000 - 000000002ff00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000002ff00000 - 000000002ff80000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000002ff80000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 767MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 196480 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 192384 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSCPL ) @ 0x000f6da0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSCPL RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x2fefa607 ACPI: FADT (v001 TOSCPL BTR20 0x06040000 PTL 0x00000001) @ 0x2fefef64 ACPI: BOOT (v001 TOSCPL $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x2fefefd8 ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAL BTR20 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: local apic disabled Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 30000000:cf800000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2392.620 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 773208k/785920k available (2029k kernel code, 12064k reserved, 695k data, 204k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4789.98 BogoMIPS (lpj=9579969) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000400 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 07 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 1720k freed ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! not found! ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0820) NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd990, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0 Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.SLOT._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *5) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 5) *11 ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca) pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe01 has been reserved PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: 3000-3fff MEM window: e8000000-e80fffff PREFETCH window: f0000000-f7ffffff PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:00.0 IO window: 00005000-00005fff IO window: 00006000-00006fff PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff MEM window: 34000000-35ffffff PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:00.1 IO window: 00007000-00007fff IO window: 00008000-00008fff PREFETCH window: 32000000-33ffffff MEM window: 36000000-37ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: 4000-4fff MEM window: e8100000-e81fffff PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1146085545.764:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xf0880000, using 6144k, total 32768k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=20 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5215 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 76011 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 12703 bytes, v3). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 127x44 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1. serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.38 NET: Registered protocol family 2 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 Using IPI Shortcut mode ACPI wakeup devices: PWBN RTLN USB1 USB2 AC97 ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 5 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1800-0x1807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1808-0x180f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive input: PS/2 Mouse on isa0060/serio4 input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint on isa0060/serio4 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) Attempting manual resume swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1) ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Adding 1622524k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c036b920(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ip_conntrack version 2.1 (6140 buckets, 49120 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0 shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 5, io base 0x00001820 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 5, io base 0x00001840 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 61855 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ohci1394: $Rev: 1299 $ Ben Collins ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e8105000-e81057ff] Max Packet=[2048] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:00.0 [1179:ff00] Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: ca/00 Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0418, PCI irq 5 Socket status: 30000820 pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x4000 - 0x4fff cs: IO port probe 0x4000-0x4fff: clean. pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe8100000 - 0xe81fffff pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x33ffffff ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:00.1 [1179:ff00] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0418, PCI irq 11 Socket status: 30000006 pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x4000 - 0x4fff cs: IO port probe 0x4000-0x4fff: clean. pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe8100000 - 0xe81fffff pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x33ffffff ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xe8104000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:3F:7B:92:6C ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023f2920002e43] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1f.4-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x20f cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x200-0x20f cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. NET: Registered protocol family 17 eth0: no IPv6 routers present ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWBN] IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered slamr: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel. slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem. slamr: probe 8086:2446 ICH card... ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64 slamr: mc97 codec is SIL27 slamr: slamr0 is ICH card. slusb: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ST7554 USB Modem. usbcore: registered new driver ST7554 USB Modem BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs subfs 0.9 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64 ndiswrapper: using irq 5 wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0c:41:c4:93:09 using driver lsbcmnds, configuration file 14E4:4320:1737:4320.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=53 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=1 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=53 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=2 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=53 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=3 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=4 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=5 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=6 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 wlan0: no IPv6 routers present ACPI-0304: *** Error: Looking up [PBST] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-0622: *** Warning: During name lookup/catalog, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-1174: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BST] (Node dffe8ea0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-0208: *** Warning: Error evaluating _BST SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=8 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.5 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=9 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85 hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-2:1.0: 7 ports detected usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb 1-2.7: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8204 usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 usb-storage: device scan complete SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1) ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-2.4: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-2.7: USB disconnect, address 4 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: remove, state 1 usb usb2: USB disconnect, address 1 usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: USB bus 2 deregistered ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.4 disabled uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: remove, state 1 usb usb1: USB disconnect, address 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: USB bus 1 deregistered ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled (EOF) And when I logged in as root to chmod the drive, I no longer got the no such file/directory error...so I suspect all may be back to normal. At some point I'll sit down with my copy of O'Reilly's "Running Linux" to figure out what you just had me do and why (inquiring minds want to learn!). But things seem to be back to normal. And it appears another "hitch" was fixed. Even before my Ubuntu fiasco, when I rebooted (or started from an overnight cold shutdown), the usbdrive wouldn't activate automatically. Once SuSE was up and was running, I'd have to unplug the usb cable from the back of the laptop and plug it back in for the usb drive to register. As they say in some parts of the planet: Go figgah! With best regards, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

Carl Hartung

23:02

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:37, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Hi Carl, ... As they say in some parts of the planet: Go figgah!

Hi Peter, I guess all is well that ends well, right? Sometimes USB 2.0 devices aren't detected or initialized in 2.0 mode. I suggested trying echi_hcd to see if the situation improved. Looks like you veered down an (apparently successful) alternate path. How is the writing performance? Is it as fast as before? Carl

Peter N. Spotts

23:46

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:02:15 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:37, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Hi Carl, ... As they say in some parts of the planet: Go figgah!

Hi Peter,

I guess all is well that ends well, right? Sometimes USB 2.0 devices aren't detected or initialized in 2.0 mode. I suggested trying echi_hcd to see if the situation improved. Looks like you veered down an (apparently successful) alternate path.

How is the writing performance? Is it as fast as before?

Carl

Yep, seems to be. What is echi_hcd? And is that something that will give me some talk-back, a la, dmesg, or does it just activate something? Many thanks for your help! With best regards, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

Carl Hartung

27 Apr 27 Apr

00:06

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:46, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Yep, seems to be. What is echi_hcd? And is that something that will give me some talk-back, a la, dmesg, or does it just activate something?

Hi Peter, Sorry for the typo... it's ehci_hcd, not echi_hcd. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHCI: "The USB 2.0 HCD implementation is called the Extended Host Controller Interface (EHCI). Only EHCI can support high-speed transfers. Each EHCI controller contains four virtual HCD implementations to support Full Speed and Low Speed devices. The virtual HCD on Intel and Via EHCI controllers are UHCI. All other vendors use virtual OHCI controllers." Just out of curiosity, what USB controller is listed when you run the following (as root): lspci -v Carl

Peter N. Spotts

00:15

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:06:40 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:46, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Yep, seems to be. What is echi_hcd? And is that something that will give me some talk-back, a la, dmesg, or does it just activate something?

Hi Peter,

Sorry for the typo... it's ehci_hcd, not echi_hcd.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHCI:

"The USB 2.0 HCD implementation is called the Extended Host Controller Interface (EHCI). Only EHCI can support high-speed transfers. Each EHCI controller contains four virtual HCD implementations to support Full Speed and Low Speed devices. The virtual HCD on Intel and Via EHCI controllers are UHCI. All other vendors use virtual OHCI controllers."

Just out of curiosity, what USB controller is listed when you run the following (as root):

00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff00 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1820 [size=32] Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

Peter N. Spotts

00:18

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:06:40 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:46, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Yep, seems to be. What is echi_hcd? And is that something that will give me some talk-back, a la, dmesg, or does it just activate something?

Hi Peter,

Sorry for the typo... it's ehci_hcd, not echi_hcd.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHCI:

"The USB 2.0 HCD implementation is called the Extended Host Controller Interface (EHCI). Only EHCI can support high-speed transfers. Each EHCI controller contains four virtual HCD implementations to support Full Speed and Low Speed devices. The virtual HCD on Intel and Via EHCI controllers are UHCI. All other vendors use virtual OHCI controllers."

BTW ehci_hcd returns "command not found" as root. Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

Carl Hartung

00:35

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 20:18, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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BTW ehci_hcd returns "command not found" as root.

Oops! I forgot to answer your question, didn't I? ;-) ehci_hcd isn't a command, it's a USB 2 module (driver). From your other post, I'd gather the correct module (uhci_hcd) is being loaded, anyway. Carl

Peter N. Spotts

00:45

New subject: [SLE] Trouble reformatting an outboard USB drive

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:35:47 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 20:18, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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BTW ehci_hcd returns "command not found" as root.

Oops! I forgot to answer your question, didn't I? ;-) ehci_hcd isn't a command, it's a USB 2 module (driver). From your other post, I'd gather the correct module (uhci_hcd) is being loaded, anyway.

Carl

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OK. And many thanks. My computer feels whole again! ;-) Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02038 USA Office: 1-671-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net pspotts@alum.mit.edu

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