In message <200501031302.j03D26tM001152@flam.gado>, "Denis Lagno" writes:

>
>> At least on -current, I don't think that's it.  I just bought an 
>> external ATA case, too, and it takes about 30 seconds from when I turn 
>> it on to when I see the console messages showing the attachment.  
>
>When kernel recognizes sd properly it takes no more than 3 seconds.
>When it is recognizes only umass and scsibus, it does not recognize
>sd ever, or at least within 20 minutes.
>
>> What version of NetBSD are you running?  If it's 2.0 and you're hitting 
>> the buffer memory issue, there should be a message; I don't think that 
>> that message existed in 1.6.x.  (I use fvdl's patch, so I don't see the 
>> problem in any event.)
>
>I run different recent snapshots of -current on two machines,
>and both demonstrate the same behaviour with my drive.
>
>Maybe it is just weird behaviour of the particular external case
>and/or drive..
>
There is certainly a problem with some USB storage devices -- there was 
a thread a while back about how mini-iPods aren't recognized.  Also see 
kern/28369, which is the same thing for a USB flash disk of mine -- I 
get the umass and scsibus messages, but not sd0.

It would be nice if we could figure out what the problem here is....

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb