Soyo 6-in-one USB memory card reader
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Apr 6 10:48:48 PDT 2004
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Fred Gilham wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using 5.2 CURRENT as of March 6. I've been using CURRENT on this
> box for a year or so now, and the behavior described below has
> occurred since I installed the Soyo device.
>
> I have a Soyo 6-in-one memory card reader/writer that connects to a
> USB port on my computer. When this device is plugged in, the system
> will not boot but halts with a BTX error.
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?
>
> If I hit spaces before the system tries to boot FreeBSD, then I get a
> prompt and I can type "/boot/loader" at the prompt and the system will
> boot and everything will work. The 6-in-one reader works fine once
> the system is booted.
>
> Seems like a stray interrupt problem that gets masked when I generate
> interrupts by hitting space on the keyboard. (Does this sound right
> or is it total nonsense???)
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can deal with this?
>
>
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