[wingnut16]

Feature or Time to call Apple

Here's the deal I plugged my ScanDisk 256Mb USB drive in before turning on my 12" rev d PB with OS X (10.3.8) and the drive did not mounting. So I unplugged and plug into the other USB port and it mounted just fine. Then I plug it back into the original USB port and the volume still did not mount. So I rebooted with the drive out and then installed the USB drive into both ports and it mounted just fine.

Any clues?

Is there a way to reset the USB port?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[fisherKing]

it's probably nothing, if it mounted later.
just be sure to eject the drive (ie drag it to the trash) before you physically remove it.

[wingnut16]

I think I did not clear state what is going on. Everytime I power up my PowerBook with my usb drive in the USB port will hang. Meaning that the power LED on my USB dirve is off and I can no longer use the USB port for anything. Once I reboot the port is fine.