[ale] SuSE 9.1 USB drops devices?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> Has anyone had any problem with SuSE dropping a USB device?  This
> weekend I was going to transfer some files from my USB drive (14GB
> laptop drive in an enclosure) onto a SuSE desktop system and it
> seemed to lose the connection as it was transferring the files.  SuSE
> detected the drive and opened a window for me to do a drag/drop.
> 
> Everything seemed fine until I came back with my coffee and noticed
> that the progress bar was not moving.  The lights on my enclosure
> showed it was powered but nothing was accessing the device.
> Re-opening the device was a no-go.  Unplugging the device, logging
> out, logging back in, and reattaching did nothing (it didn't even
> detect the device).
> 
> Unplugged the device and rebooted.  Upon logging in and reattaching
> the device it was detected, but still dropped the connection during
> the transfer.
> 
> Device works well on any other system (Knoppix, Debian, 9x, XP) and I
> haven't noticed any dropoffs on these other systems.
> 
> Any ideas?

Have you looked in the log file to see what info might be found?  Are 
there modules loaded in order to access the device?  Are the modules 
still loaded when the transfer is terminated?


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