On 12/30/06, Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:27:34PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > >I'm running -current (i386) and having problems with USB and removable
> > >media.  Many attempts to use USB memory sticks or other USB mass storage
> > >(like a PDA with a SD card) fail and make NetBSD freeze or become unable
> > >to access any disks at all.
> >
> > It's probably something speciphic to this machine.
>
> This machine has a dual-core CPU.  I tend to blame SMP for weird problems.
> ;-)  Could be wrong, though.

Yep, mine is dual core as well. No problem:

cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium M (Yonah) (686-class), 1662.61 MHz, id 0x6e8
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu0: features bfe9fbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu0: features2 c189<SSE3,MONITOR,EST,TM2,xTPR>
cpu0: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz"
cpu0: I-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way, D-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: L2 cache 2 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: using thermal monitor 1
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep (1404 mV) 1667 MHz
cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU.
cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states.
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep frequencies available (MHz): 1667 1000
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 166 MHz
cpu0: 64 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium M (Yonah) (686-class), 1662.50 MHz, id 0x6e8
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu1: features bfe9fbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu1: features2 c189<SSE3,MONITOR,EST,TM2,xTPR>
cpu1: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz"
cpu1: I-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way, D-cache 32 KB 64B/line 8-way
cpu1: L2 cache 2 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu1: using thermal monitor 1
cpu1: Enhanced SpeedStep (1404 mV) 1667 MHz
cpu1: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU.
cpu1: using only highest and lowest power states.
cpu1: Enhanced SpeedStep frequencies available (MHz): 1667 1000
cpu1: CPU 1 running
NetBSD lisa 4.99.7 NetBSD 4.99.7 (GENERIC.MPACPI) #0: Fri Dec 29
20:30:12 GMT 2006
root@loan8:/e/obj1/netbsd-builds/4_99/i386/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MPACPI
i386

(just building at this moment my usual kernel; it's running now from
an overnight build).

>
> Anyway, the USB problems are annoying as you never know when then system
> will die - I should get another NetBSD box just for accessing USB devices
> to keep the main system running. :-I
>
>   -jm
>

My overnight ISO is here:

ftp://ftp.spidersweb.co.uk/kits/netbsd-i386.iso

although I don't think this would be the problem...

Cheers,

Chavdar