In message <200404160155.42923.mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Mark Davies writes:
>My new Dell Latitude D600 has a USB floppy drive with it.  Not that I use 
>floppies very often but what would be involved in getting current to support 
>it?
>Plugging it in gives the following dmesg output:
>
>umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
>umass0: Sony USB Floppy Drive, rev 1.10/5.01, addr 3
>umass0: using UFI over CBI with CCI
>atapibus1 at umass0: 2 targets
>

Make sure it's plugged in at boot time.

The most likely answer has to do with buffer memory allocation; the 
kernel can't find a big-enough contiguous block.  At boot time, it can.


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