Subject: Re: My experience with the _RCs so far
To: List Mail User <track@Plectere.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/10/2004 05:07:14
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:52:34AM -0700, List Mail User wrote:
> 	As I said in an eariler post, booting with the device attached
> DOES NOT WORK in all cases:  I have a machine with a sigmaltel IrDA, which
> will not configure at boot but will after the "dd" hack -- Also the same
> machine (which has a Cardbus Adapter) will fail to configure an ath2 (a
> Netgear 511T) AT BOOT, if I insert a SMC2335 into slot 0 ath "ath1" (with
> the 511T in slot1) -- Again, the"dd" hack and re-insersion and the card works
> (another PCI card is ath0).  BTW, this machine has 1.5G of memory.
> 
> 	Basically, the statement that insertion before boot is a work-around
> or "bypass" is simply false, however the "dd" or "malloc" methods do work!

What does any of this have to do with umass? This discussion is about
"umass0: no buffer memory" when plugging in USB mass storage devices,
not Sigmatel IrDAs or ath2s.
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