Subject: kern/33510: Some USB Keys take a long time to mount
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/19/2006 02:25:00
>Number: 33510
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: Some USB Keys take a long time to mount
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri May 19 02:25:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Mark Davies
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.11
>Organization:
Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD city-art.mcs.vuw.ac.nz 3.99.11 NetBSD 3.99.11 (MCS_WORKSTATION) #2: Thu Feb 9 00:40:59 NZDT 2006 mark@turakirae.mcs.vuw.ac.nz:/mnt/SAVE/build.obj/src/work/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MCS_WORKSTATION i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Some USB memory keys take a very long time to perform some
initialisation step but otherwise appear to work OK.
With the problematic keys it takes over a minute between printing:
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <M-SysT5, Dell Memory Key, 5.00> disk removable
and printing
sd0: 121 MB, 975 cyl, 128 head, 2 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 249599 sectors
and then takes a similar length of time to do a mount.
Once mounted it performs normally.
Problem has also been seem on 3.99.18 and 3.0 machines.
>How-To-Repeat:
Plug in the wrong sort of USB memory key.
We've seen this problem with Dell branded 128MB keys that identify
themselves as:
<M-SysT5, Dell Memory Key, 5.00>
whereas other Dell branded 128MB keys <SMART G2, Dell Memory Key, 1.04>
and <M-SysT5, Dell Memory Key, 5.05> don't have the problem.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/04/15/0000.html gives an
example of this with a non Dell branded memory key.
>Fix:
>Unformatted: