> Not at this time.  Am I correct to assume that this is the
> disk in question, connected to Linux 2.4 at full speed?
<snip>

Yes.

> Matched with an ALI EHCI controller, which 2.6 boots like this:
<snip><snip>

Yes.

> 
> Nobody has yet reported problems with ALI's EHCI silicon, so
> I wouldn't expect that to be an issue.
> 
> But I don't know about the ALI usb-to-ide adapters; this one
> is for some reason rejecting the SET_ADDRESS request.
<more snipping>

> The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe the disk is 
> violating the USB protocol by expecting Linux to fetch its 
> device descriptor before setting the address.  I've yet to 
> actually hear of hardware that fails that way ... but poorly 
> tested hardware might end up with failures like that if it 
> were only tested against MS-Windows.  You could experiment to 
> see if that's the case, just add an extra fetch before the 
> (only) call to usb_set_address() in usbcore.

I've just screwed the eproms in an attempt to see if upgrading the
2-year old bios on my motherboard (ECS K7S5A) would make any difference.
:(

I've ordered a new MB (ECS KT600) which will arrive on Wednesday. Double
:(

> You've said that "devices" -- plural -- aren't recognized.
> What other high speed devices are acting this way for you?
> Is it the identical failure (EPROTO)?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I only have the one high-speed
device. Initially other 1.0 and 1.1 devices were not recognized, but
this changed after upgrading to the 2.6 kernel.

Chris



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