On Saturday 23 August 2003 16:05, Scott Ellis wrote:
> Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 22 August 2003 11:05, Frank Luedke wrote:
> >>   I have an 32 MB USB stick and a problem with it. NetBSD
> >> seems to detect it without any problems but does not load
> >> scsi on the running system, so I cannot mount the device.
> >> Is there any way to do this by hand ?
> >>
> >> -- < dmesg output > --
> >>
> >> umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
> >> umass0: EasyDisk product 0x0003, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
> >> umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
> >>
> >> -- < /dmesg output > --
> >
> > This means that your USB device requires OS dependant drivers. Is
> > there some label on box kind of "No drivers required" ? I saw both
> > USB MSD (Mass Storage Device) compatible USB Flash Disks which do not
> > require any drivers and work fine with all MSD aware OSes and several
> > disks which works only with Windows & K when you install vendor's
> > drivers.
>
> Not necessarily.  -current has an issue which prevents USB storage devices
> from working if they are inserted after boot.  Sometimes.  Try having the
> stick inserted on boot, and then see if it's detected.  If it is, you
> should be able to insert/remove it just fine (until the next reboot w/o the
> stick inserted).
>
> This is a major annoyance, but I haven't had the cycles to go figure out
> when -current started behaving this way.  I *think* Steven Bellovin (?)
> filed a PR on this, but I can't seem to find it offhand.
>
>     ScottE

Ouch ! Very odd behaviour, i'v never saw it under 1.6.1/i386. Thanks, at least 
now i know what to do if i find it :)

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