On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> I'm running Slackware 11 with a compiled 2.6.17.13 kernel which has all the
> necessary drivers, i.e. my system has no modules. I'm using a program called
> mkinitrd which comes with the distribution. As a test, I used it to create
> an initrd to mount /dev/hda2, which worked; then I created a second initrd to
> mount /dev/sda1, which also worked; and finally I created a third initrd to
> mount /dev/sdb1, my flash drive, which failed. The error message stated that
> the device could not be mounted. It looks like the usb_storage device needs
> some extra work prior to mounting.
By default, usb-storage has a 5-second delay whenever a new device is
detected. You can shorten that delay by specifying a module parameter
when you load the driver. For example
insmod usb-storage.ko delay_use=0
would eliminate the delay.
Alan Stern
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