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USB hard drive hangs during read / writes in Ubuntu 8.10

Submitted by benl on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:12

tried this first:

sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd

then tried (as root)

echo -1 >/sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend
shutdown -r now

neither worked. hrmph. next up did

umount /dev/sdb1
fsck /dev/sdb1

and fsck failed halfway through, erasing a directory in the process (!)

next up:

echo Y > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/old_scheme_first

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