[ale] SuSE 9.1 USB drops devices?

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

On Monday 28 June 2004 11:47 am, 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.
>

I have had similar problems, but on Gentoo.  I think it's a USB 2.0 thing.  
Are you using/trying to use USB 2.0?  If so, fall back to 1.1 and see if that 
helps.

Calvin...