[ale] USB HD issues

[mbt at zest.trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 00:41 -0400, George L. Allen wrote:
> Has anyone been having USB Storage issues with certain kernels?
> recently I've been getting 'device descriptor read/64, error -110'
> errors where my external hard drives have been dropping out, while
> they'd been working steadily before with no hardware changes.
> Sometimes they are accompanied by very fear-inducing click-of-death
> noises from the drives, but as this seems to be happening to any USB
> drive and not just the one, I think it may be something to do with
> recent software updates.

It is entirely possible something busted in the kernel.  I recently came
across a drive that works perfectly fine in Linux 2.6.24, but on newer
kernels does not.  I haven't had a chance to figure out the usbmon thing
to reply to the bug report's request for information[0], but this isn't
the first time that I've run into USB mass storage issues with certain
types of devices.

	--- Mike

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13902