Hi, I just tried to plug a "Western Digital, My Book Series" USB disk on 2.6.31-rc1. But, it failed to recognize it by saying "READ CAPACITY failed". The same disk works fine with =< 2.6.30. Interestingly, I tried another USB Disk (which is noname, just USB Box with disk) and it worked fine. Here are the logs when WD-My Book has plugged in : With 2.6.31-rc1 Jun 26 09:31:56 tarkane kernel: [ 459.016642] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jun 26 09:31:56 tarkane kernel: [ 459.016779] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 26 09:31:56 tarkane kernel: [ 459.016895] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Jun 26 09:31:56 tarkane kernel: [ 459.016899] USB Mass Storage support registered. Jun 26 09:32:01 tarkane kernel: [ 464.051692] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 2500JB External 0108 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 Jun 26 09:32:01 tarkane kernel: [ 464.052354] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Jun 26 09:32:01 tarkane kernel: [ 464.054141] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB) Jun 26 09:32:32 tarkane kernel: [ 494.805017] usb 5-8: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.707778] usb 5-8: USB disconnect, address 4 Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709294] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709445] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709448] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709454] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available. Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709502] sdb: detected capacity change from 250059350016 to 0 Jun 26 09:32:36 tarkane kernel: [ 498.709653] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed With 2.6.30 Jun 26 09:38:57 tarkane kernel: [ 315.453136] usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Jun 26 09:38:57 tarkane kernel: [ 315.575147] usb 5-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 26 09:38:58 tarkane kernel: [ 315.618461] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jun 26 09:38:58 tarkane kernel: [ 315.618653] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 26 09:38:58 tarkane kernel: [ 315.618775] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Jun 26 09:38:58 tarkane kernel: [ 315.618779] USB Mass Storage support registered. Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.653653] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 2500JB External 0108 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.655270] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.661485] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB) Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.664200] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.666169] sdb: sdb1 Jun 26 09:39:03 tarkane kernel: [ 320.675070] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Also, my .config is attached. Tarkan