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

Frank frannk_m1 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 20 02:38:55 CEST 2004


--- Shannon Holland <holland at loser.net> wrote:

> 
> 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

I ported the OHCI driver over to our 8245 based board and don't
have a problem with any (6) devices we have tried. I did
encounter a usb memory stick that worked in u-boot but did not
work with the kernel. Maybe your driver is the culprit...
> 
> 
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