There appears to be someone else reporting this same sort of thing: "external usb storage does not work with intel D945GCLF motherboard" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625134
@David, seeing your mention of dmesg, I went checking my dmesg output and came upon that same error. Thus have commented on and subscribed to that other bug report. Problem for us unchanged since #11. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645211 Title: USB HDD and Flash Drives no longer recognized -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs