[PLUG] Shared Windows and Linux USB Disk

[Larry Brigman]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Herrington
<dherrington at robertmarktech.com> wrote:
> I have a preference question. I bought a Western Digital 280 gig disk and
> put vmware images on it for my team at work. I use Ubuntu as my main OS
> though, and most everyone else uses Windows. I left the original format as
> NTFS. The other day the cat graciously pulled the power plug on my desktop
> and I had to plug the usb drive in about five or six times before it
> automounted in Ubuntu. During each attempted mount I got to see these in
> dmesg:
>
>
> [1881626.372625] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> [1881626.664589] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62
> [1881626.944548] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 7
> [1881627.352609] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62
> [1881627.528547] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 7
> [1881627.936543] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62
> [1881627.938400] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7
> [1881628.120569] usb 1-5: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 8
> [1881628.300720] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62
>

These error are from the USB driver not being able to read correctly.  I had
similar issues during booting trying to talk to a USB flash device.
Nothing to do with the
file system that is on it.