hard drive
USB hard drive hangs during read / writes in Ubuntu 8.10
Submitted by benl on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:12
Related Terms :
same issue as
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=797789
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=163716
official bug is at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/264789?comments=all
tried this first:
sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcdthen tried (as root)
echo -1 >/sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend
shutdown -r nowneither worked. hrmph. next up did
umount /dev/sdb1
fsck /dev/sdb1