Subject: Re: USB 2.0 problems with NetBSD 4.0_RC*
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/27/2007 13:44:00
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