Hi guys and gals.

Got a Cendyne CD-RW USB drive and an Adaptec USB 2.0 adapter. It looks like the adapter is working OK, but the drive isn't being recognised. The is the output from dmesg.....

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc9132000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:08.0, NEC Corporation USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:08.1
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc9134000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:08.1, NEC Corporation USB (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:08.2
ehci-hcd 00:08.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
ehci-hcd 00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem c913c000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci-hcd 00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2002-Dec-20
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 5 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: new USB device 00:08.2-4, assigned address 2
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:08.2-4, assigned address 3
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)


Don't know why my USB card doesn't like this drive.

I've tried just about every BIOS setting I can program. I've got an FIC VA-503+ with K6-2 300mhz, ATI Mach 64 AGP and just about all my ISA and PCI cards yanked out at this point. Don't understand why the bloody thing won't initialize.

What's the next step guys?

Mike Doerner

Well, maybe it's my Adaptec USB card. /proc/interrupts for IRQ 11 remains zero, and doesn't change. Swapping PCI slots doesn't change that. What next?

Mike D

Could be due to your onboard USB also being assigned to IRQ 11. Have you tried to disable the onboard USB to see what happens?

Yes, the on-board USB has been disabled. What next?

Have you also tried disabling plug and pray in the BIOS?

Yes, I did that (disabled plug n pray), as well as disbled the automatic allocation of IRQ's to slots on the motherboard.

What next?

Mike Doerner

What else can I do here guys?

Mike D