Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Michael Klinosky <mpk2 at enter.net> wrote: > >> I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive, >> the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used >> gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in): >> > > Possibly not helpful, but -- > > I've had this happen when using the front-panel USB ports on a couple > of different towers. It does not happen on the same machines using > the USB ports in the back, leading me to believe that there's a > physical problem with the front-panel connections; induction from the > USB to reset wires, or some such. > more likely, the front panel wiring isn't up to USB 2.0 specs and can't handle 480Mbit/sec, so protocol data gets corrupted during high speed transfers, causing the driver to take a dump in kernel space