[arch-general] usb disk not visible

[Andrea Crotti]

On 04/09/2012 06:31 PM, Guus Snijders wrote:
> Op 9 apr. 2012 19:05 schreef "Andrea Crotti"<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>
> het volgende:
>> I have a problem with an external USB disk here, which is a WD 500Gb
>> bought last year.
>>
>> Recently I decided finally to format it to ext3, since I'm using Linux
>> everywhere, but now I don't seem to see it from my dell latitude.
>>
>> On my mini dell everything works perfectly, but on the latitude I get
>> only this from dmesg
>>
>> [ 8916.825474] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 11
>> [ 8917.013895] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 12 using
> ehci_hcd
>> [ 8919.126604] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 12
>> [ 8919.314274] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 13 using
> ehci_hcd
>
> Looks like a flaky USB connection to me.
> Have you tried other ports or perhaps other USB devices on that same port?
>
> mvg, Guus

All USB ports work perfectly on this machine as far as I can tell.
I now tried all three ports and exactly same results.
Can it be something in the kernel? Or maybe UDEV configuration (which I 
guess
should come at a later stage, so it should not be the problem).