I have been attempting to get a USB 3 external disk to work under X86-64
SL 6 . lsusb reports a USB 3 port. However, when the drive is inserted
into the USB 3 port, lsusb simply hangs and the drive does not appear
nor mount.
On hardware using the same motherboard and processor as my workstation,
we also have installed OpenSUSE current (not Enterprise SUSE that is the
competitor to RHEL, e.g., SL). The USB 3 external disk works and is
seen as USB 3.
Here is a copy of the relevant typescript:
Script started on Wed 06 Jul 2011 04:19:19 PM PDT
^[]2;admin@ahprc1:~^G^[]1;ahprc1^Gadmin@ahprc1:~> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. Comfort Curve Keyboard
2000 V1.0
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 152d:0551 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA
Technology Corp.
^[]2;admin@ahprc1:~^G^[]1;ahprc1^Gadmin@ahprc1:~> uname -a
Linux ahprc1 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-02-21 10:34:10
+0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
^[]2;admin@ahprc1:~^G^[]1;ahprc1^Gadmin@ahprc1:~> mount
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs
(rw,relatime,size=4056988k,nr_inodes=1014247,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda5 on / type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/admin/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
/dev/sdb7 on /media/_usr_local type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb6 on /media/_vmware type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/9aaab62a-50eb-4a36-a95c-02ed44d27881 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb8 on /media/_opt1 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb12 on /media/88b09855-c009-4cbd-b055-5bda1ec6d432 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/_home1 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb11 on /media/_usr11 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb9 on /media/68cc9e91-1115-4eeb-8e55-bf0f22f6ac26 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb5 on /media/167ee03e-960b-4c7e-8aba-b62f49d13834 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/848f55af-9e8c-4f46-bf62-5fd2eb577eb6 type ext2
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,uhelper=udisks)
^[]2;admin@ahprc1:~^G^[]1;ahprc1^Gadmin@ahprc1:~> exit
exit
Script done on Wed 06 Jul 2011 04:20:20 PM PDT
Although the account is called "admin", admin is just a regular user on
the machine upon which the output was generated; I did not need to use
any root privileges.
A significant difference between the two machines is the kernel:
2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop x86_64 for OpenSUSE
and
2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 for SL 6
2.6.37 seems to work, 2.6.32 does not .
Can I install a 2.6.37 x86_64 kernel on SL 6? If it does not boot, will
grub during boot give me the usual option of selecting the kernel to
boot and boot the existing 2.6.32 kernel?
Yasha Karant
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