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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