In message <20040913092829.2a0f108b.zakhrin@freeshell.org>, Christian Palomino 
writes:

>
> I've got a mini iPod and I'm trying to make it work with my laptop, wich has 
>USB2.0 ports but no firewire. When I plug the mini iPod to the USB port, the u
>mass0 and scsibus is detected, but no scsi device is detecetd for the iPod. I'
>ve found some references on how to solve the problem using firewire, but it's 
>not my case. I'v got :

What version of NetBSD are you running?  It sounds to me very much like 
the "no buffer memory problem", because the kernel doesn't have enough 
contiguous memory for a USB drive and the driver doesn't know how to 
use non-contiguous memory.  2.0beta and -current print an explicit 
message about that; I don't think 1.6.x does.

The simplest bypass is to make sure the device is plugged in at boot 
time.  Others report success with various uses of "dd" to flush memory; 
I've had mixed results doing that.

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