I have a bootup problem with a USB stick I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes). When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and mounted with an icon on the desktop. I'm using Etch. I'd either like to find a fix for this so that the bootup process finds the stick on first boot, or failing that, to run some program to recognise the stick without having to reboot.
Russell ===================================================================== I've tried to pull out relevant lines from syslog (grepping "usb", "ehci", "uhci") which are as follows on first boot when the stick fails to be discovered: May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, io mem 0xfebffc00 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 31 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:08:18 orac kernel: usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:08:21 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 50 May 12 22:08:31 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 87 May 12 22:08:33 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 95 May 12 22:08:34 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:08:34 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:08:34 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 97 May 12 22:08:36 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 101 May 12 22:08:39 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 115 May 12 22:08:44 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 May 12 22:08:44 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 May 12 22:08:47 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16 May 12 22:08:49 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21 May 12 22:08:50 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 26 May 12 22:08:53 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 38 May 12 22:08:58 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:08:58 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:08:58 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 54 May 12 22:09:02 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:09:02 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:09:02 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 68 May 12 22:09:05 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 78 May 12 22:09:06 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 82 May 12 22:09:08 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 88 May 12 22:09:09 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:09:09 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:09:09 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 91 May 12 22:09:11 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 94 May 12 22:09:12 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 98 May 12 22:09:13 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 103 May 12 22:09:16 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 113 May 12 22:09:18 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 121 May 12 22:09:19 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:09:19 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:09:21 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 126 May 12 22:09:23 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 May 12 22:09:25 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16 May 12 22:09:26 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 20 May 12 22:09:30 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 32 May 12 22:09:31 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 35 May 12 22:09:31 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 36 May 12 22:09:34 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 May 12 22:09:35 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 4 reset error -110 May 12 22:09:35 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) May 12 22:09:35 orac kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 50 ===================================================================== Messages on successful reboot are: May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 177, io mem 0xfebffc00 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb-storage: device found at 2 May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 12 22:19:11 orac kernel: usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
