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The low level LINUX USB driver can get locked up

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Our target is designed to accept a USB stick and mount it as a file system.  That works just fine.

One of our testers decided to see what would happen if a large external USB-powered Hard disk was connected.

This caused the low-level USB driver to lock up and the unit needed to be rebooted in order to recover.

My guess is that the current limiting on the USB-A port did not allow the external Hard Drive to spin up, thus sending the USB driver into an infinite wait.

Our USB-A port is current limited per USB 1.1

This is the information of the external Hard Drive used to produce this behavior:

Seagate - FreeAgent Go - 1TB
PN: 9KW2AL-502