[vox-tech] USB disk drive problem

Wes Hardaker wjhns156 at hardakers.net
Wed Mar 5 06:29:55 PST 2008


>>>>> "DA" == Drew Arnett <arnett.drew at gmail.com> writes:

DA> A couple of years ago, I would sometimes find it helpful to see what
DA> shows up in dmesg when the USB device is plugged in.

dmesg or /var/log/messages is *critical* to look at when random devices
of any type (typically usb) don't work.  The messages will show the last
thing that was plugged in and what the kernel thinks it is, what driver
it's trying to pair it with, etc.
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