Laptop docking station problems

[paul marwick]

I have an IBM T23, and also have a docking station for the machine. The
docking station provides a number of extra faciliites, as well as port
replicator functions.

I have two problems with this. First, I have an extra hard drive caddy
whcih can be installed in the docking station. I have been able to use
it, and have the controller recognized, as is the drive. The trouble
is, it is not being treated as a removable, which it effectively is. I
can manually mount partitions of whatever drive is in the caddy, but I
would like them to be picked up automatically as would be the case with
a USB removable or a PCMCIA removable drive. As things stand, editing
fstab is not practical, since the drive in the caddy is not necessarily
the same from one boot to the next.

Is there any way to get Ubuntu to treat the hard drive in the docking
station caddy as a removable and automount its partitions?

Second, the docking station provides extra USB ports. On startup, I'm
getting the following error, and I am unable to access the extra USB
ports:

kernel:  usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
kernel:  usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
kernel:  usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
kernel:  usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
kernel:  usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
kernel:  usb 1-1: device not accepting address 4, error -71
kernel:  usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
kernel:  usb 1-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71
kernel:  ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])

I'm far from sure what the errors mean, and I should also note that
under either OS/2 or Win2K, the extra ports are acessable. 

Does anyone have any ideas?

paul.


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