Hangup on USB mass device

[Al Plant]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 15:42:47 +0000 Sébastien Morand 
> <seb.morand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the answer, I'm sorry for the little information I send.
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE kernel GENERIC on i386.
>> I don't see anything in the message, but I'm not sure where to look at
>> for crashdump.
>>
>> My computer is either hanging up for ever, I can't move mouse or use
>> keyboard anymore, juste reset, or hang up a few seconds and reboot by
>> it self.
>>
> 
> Please don't top post.
> 
> I too am having a problem with umass on 7.0-STABLE.  Not quite the same 
> as yours, but similar.  During reboots, the umass device cases the 
> kernel to core dump and the system reboots.  If I unplug the drive and 
> wait for the system to come up to a login prompt, I can login, plug in 
> the drive, watch it's detection and then mount it with no problem.
> 
> Dont' know what the problem is, but other problems with umass have been 
> reported on the STABLE list as well.  I've recompiled my kernel six 
> times now. The umass device has gone from unmountable to stable in the 
> OS but still fails during boot.
> 
Aloha,
FWIW:

I have had several FreeBSD boxes from 4.11 to 7* that wont boot with the 
usb device in the slot, but work just fine if you boot first than insert 
the usb device. In my case the device is a flash/thumb drive for backing 
up files.

I never figured out why so I just leave them unpluged during a reboot.

Maybe it tries to boot from the usb drive which is not bootable so it 
just hangs in my case.

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