Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[William Park]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:49:34PM +0000, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:36:43PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > My USB key drive takes 5s to show up as SCSI, from the moment 'uhci_hcd'
> > and 'usb-storage' spit out message.  I don't know why.  Internally, USB
> > key drive is solid state flash memory, so it should be faster than any
> > spinning disks.
> 
>  USB keys driven by UB driver come up instantly.

Kernel Helpfile says:

    CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB:
	This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
	such as flash keys.
	Warning: Enabling this cripples the usb-storage driver.
	If unsure, say N.

I need 'usb-storage', because USB key drive is supposed to be portable
harddisk.
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