That may be caused by the BIOS option to allow booting from SCSI. Disable that and see what happens.
Best regards, Edward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Theofilu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 19:30 Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] Genesys - USB to IDE Disk > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:00:00 -0500 (EST) > Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I suspect it's the old Genesys problem. There's a time delay built into > > > > the usb-storage driver that's supposed to compensate, but apparently for > > > > some drives the delay isn't long enough. > > > [...] > > > > If 200 works okay, try reducing the number to 150, or 120, or 110... > > Find a reasonably small value that works reliably on your system. Let > > me know what happens. > > > > Unfortunatly nothing worked. Even a value of 400 didn't change anything. > But I found out, that I can't boot when this device is connected. The BIOS > itself hangs immediatly after initializing the disk controller. If I then > unplug the device, the machine continues booting, but Lunux crashes during > boot at the moment where it tries to probe the USB controller. This makes > me believe that this device is broken and will never work. Best I can do, > is selling it on Ebay :-]. > > However. Thanks for your help. > > -- > Andreas Theofilu > http://www.TheosSoft.net/ > > --==| Enjoy the science of Linux! |==-- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
