Thanks for that Vinny. I eventually found a patch for the 2.4 kernel tree which apparently the kernel developers are refusing to add to the kernel source. However I applied the patch to the 2.5.33 source and the ScanLogic USB-IDE bridge now works perfectly :-)
IDE devices seem to be a real sticking point for the kernel developers ! I had a long e-mail discussion with the maintainer of pcmcia-cs about why desktop PCMCIA IDE disks simply don't work. He had a similar story in that the desktop IDE code was "broken as far as adding PCMCIA IDE devices" and the maintainer of that software was "stubonly refusing to make any changes". Sad, but true ! Anyway, if anyone else has the same trouble the URL is : http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-01/1458.html Thanks, Owen Orginal forwarded as requested : Hi there! For some reason, none of my posts have shown up on the mailing list lately, no matter where I send them - so i'll reply directly. This may be a dumb thought - but does the drive spin up? It seems that the USB bridge chip in my drive has some kind of command to spin the drive up or down. The times when I did not get an entry, and usbview showed the controller as "unknown". I just noticed this about 2 days ago. Booting the computer to windows with the drive attached would also sometimes hang windows booting. If I plug the drive in after Windows boots, windows will recognize it, and start it up. Rebooting to linux - and the drive's there! Checking with usbview - the device is properly recognised! I have NO IDEA why it does this - but those are my observations on the problem so far. If you would forward this to the list I'd appreciate it, too Regards, Vinny On Monday 03 June 2002 05:48 pm, OS wrote: > (Sorry buy I my ISP e-mail went down so I have no idea if these got through > or if any nice people replied so please bear with this if you've seen it > before, thanks) > > I have a USB disk drive caddy and it gets no /dev entry either. With this > one though if I plug it in at boot time the boot sequence just stops after > USB Storage [OK]. <Ctrl><Alt><Del> still works but I have found no other > way of getting the boot sequence to continue normally. > > If I plug it in after boot usbview shows it as a Quick-ServUSBIDE and > harddrake2 shows it as an SL11R-IDE [IDE-BRIDGE]. The Information panel > shows it as "Vendor: Scan Logic Corp.", "Bus: USB", "Bus Location: 0:2", > "module: usb-storage" and "Media class:" > > However, try as I might I can find no way of getting to the disk the other > side of the IDE bridge. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Owen > > On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 7:01 pm, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > "Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a Hyundai 30gb USB hard drive, which works fine with windows. > > > As of this afternoon's cooker upgrade, it seems to work fine with > > > Linux as well, but with a minor snag. The drive has to be plugged > > > in at boot time for the entries to be made in /dev. If the drive is > > > plugged in later, it appears that the usb driver for disk drives > > > loads, but no /dev entries are created so the drive can't be > > > mounted. > > > > hum hum ... > > you use usb mass storage driver ? > > what happens if you rmmod it then modprobe it again ? > > -------------------------------------------------------
