USB memory stick and MP3 player mounting

I have a USB memory stick and a Cowon G3 MP3 player. I could not get the former to mount reliably and the latter would not mount at all. This is on a home built box running SuSE 9.3 pro with a generic kernel. Both devices work on a Dell machine with the same release of SuSE, which would lead me to believe it is my hardware that is at fault.

I have installed a powered USB hub, as a result of which the memory stick now mounts every time. The MP3 player still refuses to mount. I can see it inproc-bus-usb-devices. However all I get invar-log-messages are lines like:

Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: Initializing USB Mbutt Storage driver... Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mbutt Storage devi ces Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: USB Mbutt Storage support registered. Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5 Jul 21 20:12:46 murorum kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

And then a whole series of lines like the following, with increasing addresses.

Jul 21 20:14:34 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: device descriptor read-64, error -71 Jul 21 20:14:39 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: device descriptor read-64, error -71 Jul 21 20:14:39 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: reset high speed USB device using ehcihcd and address 5 Jul 21 20:14:44 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: device not accepting address 5, error -71 Jul 21 20:14:44 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: reset high speed USB device using ehcihcd and address 5 Jul 21 20:14:50 murorum kernel: usb 4-4.1: device not accepting address 5, error -71 Jul 21 20:14:50 murorum kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0

As anyone any idea of how to fix this?

-- Colin Walls

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