Re: External USB Storage TEAC HD-35PUK-B

[Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 ap_01@xxxxxx wrote:

> Hallo Alan,
> thanx for your support. You are right, I am running a Suse 9.2 with an older kernel, but with my Ubuntu Laptop 6.06 LTS with newest official updates and a newer kernel (but still not the newest) the same problem appears. Here some additional infos.
> 
> > 	What happens when you try to run fdisk?
> linux:/home/www # fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Konnte /dev/sda nicht lesen
> l
> 
> Axel: Sorry its a German system, I also did su before. It says, can't read the device.
> > 
> > 	What shows up in the dmesg log when you first plug in the
> > 	drive
> 
> usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using address 5
> usb 5-2: Product: USB 2.0  IDE DEVICE
> usb 5-2: Manufacturer: Super Top
> usb 5-2: SerialNumber: ??????????

Ah, yes.  There was a change to help support devices from Super Top.  It 
was added in 2.6.20.  You can expect that the device won't work with any 
earlier kernel.

Alan Stern


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