From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 08:40:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2185E16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate-internal1.sri.com (mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM [128.18.84.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6D7943D2F for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gilham@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 25301 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2004 15:40:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate-internal1.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate-internal1.sri.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2004 15:40:07 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) M2004040708400728920 for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:40:07 -0700 Received: from snapdragon.csl.sri.com (snapdragon.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.20]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.9/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i37Fe7ak016461 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:40:07 -0700 Received: from snapdragon (localhost [127.0.0.1])i37Fe7ld030665 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gilham@snapdragon.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200404071540.i37Fe7ld030665@snapdragon.csl.sri.com> To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <20040406104610.O89264@carver.gumbysoft.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:40:07 -0700 From: Fred Gilham Subject: Re: Soyo 6-in-one USB memory card reader X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:40:54 -0000 > Can you try disabling booting from USB mass stoarge devices in your > BIOS? It sounds like the BIOS screws up bigtime if it sees such a > device connected. > > Also check for a BIOS update. > > What motherboard do you have? I can't see any USB mass storage settings in the BIOS. I've got the latest BIOS --- albiet 2 years old. The board is a FIC AN11. Just for the fun of it I copied down the BTX register dump, if that helps any: int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030206 eip=0000ffff eax=00009100 ebx=0000ffff ecx=0000ffff edx=00000007 esi=0000ffff edi=0000ffff ebp=000003fc esp=ffffb608 cs=f000 ds=0040 es=1000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9ebb cs:eip=b3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 41 d0-00 f6 06 02 fe 1a 00 d0 -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com In the course of making code more readable, performance was accidentally improved by about 20%. --- From BRL 2.1.23 release notes