On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Marc Joliet wrote: > > If it supports a USB keyboard, it might still go through and initialize > > all the USB devices. > > Hah! I should have thought of that. Well, I tried the following: unplug the > drive before booting, plug it in once GRUB loads, and then boot the kernel. That's a good idea. > And guess what, *then* the drive works fine! I guess that *does* make it sound > like the problem is due to interaction with the BIOS, combined with the weird > block size translation. It seems as if the latter is done only once on device > initialisation (though I'm curious: how can one determine whether it is > necessary, that is, how can a USB drive detect whether it can advertise its > true block size or not?). I have no idea. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
