Re: How to find if BIOS has already enabled the device

[John Livingston]

> The offending code is in hcd-pci.c - which 
> seems to be executed unconditionally. usb_hcd_pci_probe() calls 
> pci_enable_device() which hangs if there was already a device present, 
> attached to the controller. 
>  
Have you attempted more generic fix-hardware-hang solutions?  I've known 
more than a few times where a good old "noapic nolapic" snapped a box 
out of some strange and seemingly unrelated problems...

Also, is your BIOS fully up to date/modern?  A quick Google search found 
a few things like this:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-18940-USB-Hub-And-Boot-Problems.html
The problem might be more generic than a bad interaction between drive 
and kernel.

~John Livingston
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