On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:39:43 +0100
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> my NetBSD-i386 4.0_RC3 system didn't recognized my external harddisk
> this morning. I've tried multiple USB port but it didn't help. I
> connected the harddisk to my Mac OS X system and it worked fine.
> 
> I downgraded the NetBSD system to 4.0_RC1 and the harddisk was
> recognized again. I upgraded to 4.0_RC3 again and the harddisk was
> still recognized.
> 
I've seen this often -- *something* happens to the USB stack, and it
stop recognizing anything.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb