umass detected, but da is never created

[Russell J. Wood]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote:
> I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly 
> recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created..
> 
> this is what I get from the console:
> 
> umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB TO IDE, rev 2.00/0.33, addr 2
> umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
> umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
>
> Also, the very same thing but the timeouts are happening if I connect an Apple 
> iPod.. 
> 
> And for the record, I had this problem with both the generic and my custom 
> kernel.. both with umass,da,ses,pass compiled in..
> 
> Any ideas as for how to solve this?
> Any guidelines and I'd gladly edit the files in question and submit a patch, 
> when I get it working.. 
> 
> PS, Any other usb-drive I've tried has worked without problems..

At first I guessed it would have been a faulty device, however after a
quick Google it appears `common'.

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-664.html

Maybe it's an unsupported device.

- Russell