That may be caused by the BIOS option to allow booting from SCSI. Disable
that and see what happens.

Best regards,
Edward

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Theofilu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alan Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 19:30
Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] Genesys - USB to IDE Disk


> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:00:00 -0500 (EST)
> Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I suspect it's the old Genesys problem.  There's a time delay built into
> >
> > the usb-storage driver that's supposed to compensate, but apparently for
> >
> > some drives the delay isn't long enough.
> >
> [...]
> >
> > If 200 works okay, try reducing the number to 150, or 120, or 110...
> > Find a reasonably small value that works reliably on your system.  Let
> > me know what happens.
> >
>
> Unfortunatly nothing worked. Even a value of 400 didn't change anything.
> But I found out, that I can't boot when this device is connected. The BIOS
> itself hangs immediatly after initializing the disk controller. If I then
> unplug the device, the machine continues booting, but Lunux crashes during
> boot at the moment where it tries to probe the USB controller. This makes
> me believe that this device is broken and will never work. Best I can do,
> is selling it on Ebay :-].
>
> However. Thanks for your help.
>
> -- 
> Andreas Theofilu
> http://www.TheosSoft.net/
>
>                      --==| Enjoy the science of Linux! |==--
>
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