[U-Boot-Users] u-boot 1.1.1 and USB mass storage devices

[Shannon Holland]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> This is normal. Use the working tdevices, and throw away the rest.
>
>> I'm curious if these are known problems or likely to be something in
>> the way we have (or have not) set up usb? Might anyone have some
>> recommendations as to where to start looking?
>
> There are many, many USB devices out there which are out of spec,  or
> where  controller/firmware  problems get fixed in the windows drivers
> provided by the vendor (either directly  or  through  M$).  Typically
> such  devices will not work under Linux, or only with special quirks.
> U-Boot does not implement any such  quirks,  which  makes  it  a  bit
> picky.
>
> Using USB 2.0 spec'ed devices usually increases the chance that  they
> will work with U-Boot.
>

Does anyone have recommendations as to devices that are known to work? 
We've tried four to date, the only one that works is a two year old USB 
1.1 drive that I haven't been able to find more of (yet). We've tried 
another 1.1 device, along with two USB 2.0 devices (one being a 
Sandisk, the other being a "generic" el-cheapo model) - buying and 
trying at random is starting to get expensive!

Thanks!

Shannon