From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <66a812e5403e74e0fc84d7f94ed5744d@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:40 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] usbd problem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 519d5440-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Do you mean why doesn't the ctl file accept partition commands? > You can always use fs(3) for that. But usb root is not very > practical anyway, at least with uhci, because of a stubborn > bug in the driver which makes transfers very very slow. Now > there's ohci support I would be interested to know if that works > at more like normal usb speed. you're assuming that i want to continue to do i/o once i've booted. :-) the basic problem is that, e.g., ich9r boards have no pata at all. it used to be easy to boot from CF or a DOM. but that's becoming more of a problem. booting from usb might be the only cheep solid-state choice. geoff pointed out that usb/disk pulls in a lot of stuff and might need some work to run in the kernel. so perhaps i don't fully appreciate how interconnected /dev/usb?, usb/usbd, and usb/disk. i was under the impression that usb/disk was just a bit of glue that turns an endpoint into a block device. - erik