Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
Strange one is this. My new PC with the latest ITX X299 chipset doesn't mount my Kingston DataTraveller USB 3.0 stick under Unbuntu 16.04 LTS. This is a fairly old stick and newer USB sticks from Kingston, Transcend and Sandisk all work. This same stick works fine in any of my older laptops. I spent a couple of hours looking into this and when I monitored the port scanning I see that the USB stick is recognised and all expected info is in there. Then it seems to time out and shuts down the port and after a while rescans and opens up the stick again and so over and over. Tried the second front USB port with the same results. So I try the rear ports but since they are a pain to reach I connected an old USB2 extension cable and lo the USB stick is mounted! This only works for my 4 rear USB 3 ports and not the front two.
Anywho cutting a long story short it transpires that if I plug the stick into any my 6 USB 3 ports it doesn't mount but it will if connected to this 1.5M USB cable! Then I try a USB3 hub but no luck Now USB 3 cable has 9 leads whilst a USB2 has just 4 or 5. So it seems to me that although the DataTraveller is sold as USB 3.0 and does have the blue plastic thingummybob in its plug its only working in USB2 mode???
Cheers,
DV
Anywho cutting a long story short it transpires that if I plug the stick into any my 6 USB 3 ports it doesn't mount but it will if connected to this 1.5M USB cable! Then I try a USB3 hub but no luck Now USB 3 cable has 9 leads whilst a USB2 has just 4 or 5. So it seems to me that although the DataTraveller is sold as USB 3.0 and does have the blue plastic thingummybob in its plug its only working in USB2 mode???
Cheers,
DV