In message <20040721175302.GA22269@kyyhky.embedtronics.fi>, Jukka Marin writes:
>On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:37:26PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> >umass0: no buffer memory
>> >
>> 
>> This is a known (and frequently discussed) problem with the USB disk
>> support -- the driver needs contiguous memory and can't find it.  
>> Booting the system with the USB disk attached often helps; you can also 
>> do things like
>> 
>> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128m
>
>Well, yes, but will this be _fixed_? :-)  

I share your frustration -- it's been high on my list of annoyances for 
quite some time.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb