Resolved: [PLUG] Detecting Drive in USB IDE Enclosure

[Jason Martin]

On 4/28/07, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> Robert Citek wrote:
> > Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> >> I bought an Nspire OT352 at ENU. ... Now, how do I make Linux
> >> use it?
> >
> > It should have been automagical.
>
> <...>
>
> > Good luck and let us know how things go.
>
> Here's how things went.
>
> It turns out that the cable that comes with the Nspire doesn't work on
> my Linux machine, but a generic USB cable that I use with my Epson
> Stylus PHOTO R220 does work with it.
>
> After about 100 lines of error messages, and less than 1/2 way through
> the set of messages, this helpful line appears:
>
> hub 4-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 5.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
>
> Based on knowing that my printer cable works and the one that came with
> the USB IDE enclosure doesn't, I assumed that the cable provided with
> the enclosure was bad and returned the whole thing to ENU for a
> replacement. When I got it home I had the same problem -- the provided
> cable does not work, but my printer cable does.
>
> I'll just go with the printer cable. I won't be using the enclosure a
> lot, so it won't be that big a hassle to switch the cable.

Have you tried the provided cable in a different USB port on your
Linux system?  Maybe the port is bad.

Or you've found a bad batch of USB cables.

Jason