Re: USB Mass Storage devices continually reenumerate

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Mike Nuss wrote:

> Alan Stern wrote:
> > About all you can do is what I suggested earlier: Plug the device into
> > a powered hub, which most likely will provide enough current for the
> > device's needs.  If the device then works, you will know that the host
> > doesn't provide enough current.  If it doesn't, that's a reasonably 
> > good indication that the current draw isn't the source of the problem.
> 
> OK. I'm using a Dynex hub which claims to be self-powered.

"Claims to be"?  Does it or doesn't it have a power cord?

> Now the hub
> itself sometimes gets disconnected when I plug in a flash drive:

It's hard to know what to make of all this.  My best guess is that your 
computer's USB controller has some sort of hardware problem, apparently 
not directly related to power consumption.

I know that's vague, but it's the best I can do.

Alan Stern


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