Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

	I have been doing some further tests about my usb
problems and I found out that my testing procedure is flawed.
Every new kernel I built was built using bzdisk as the last step
in the process so I left the kernel on my boot drive alone and
was using a new kernel built on a floppy disk.  I believe that
that kernel uses a different lilo.conf file because that was part
of the reason why I see no SCSI emulation for the IDE CDROM.

	I bit the bullet and built a new kernel with the IDE SCSI
emulation as before and the usb port mass storage driver support.

	This time, I still have the CDROM as /dev/sr0 or
/dev/scd0 so that is good.  What I still don't seem to have is
anything happening with the usb port and mass-storage driver.

	The syslog shows that the usb drivers installed,
registered and initialized, but there are no new devices.

	I am testing a new Maxtor 5000 LE external drive with
this system so I have the two unknowns of the new usb
installation plus the new drive which may or may not work with
Linux.  The drive works with Windows and Mac OSX so it is not
known whether or not it will work here.

	Shouldn't there be some kind of dialog regarding the usb
activity when the system boots besides the simple fact that the
usb support is there?

	I even temporarily took out the append command in
lilo.conf that maps /dev/hdc to scsi and the SCSI did go away.
The usb support, however, does not appear to have added any new
devices with the only thing at all being a usb directory in
/proc/bus which is empty.

	Does it matter which usb port I connect to on the 
mother board?

	Many thanks.