problems with accessing USB mass storage

[David Douthitt]

Hi all,

I remastered 12-12-2002 Knoppix ISO to include vmware.
The guest OS in my case is windows 98 sitting on Transcend JetFlash (USB storage). And it is correctly recognised and mounted during boot-up. But when I try to boot-up the Virtual machine, it takes really long to start reading from the USB flash. I have inclded the kernel log for that, seems like something is timing out. How can I fix this problem.

Here is the output of
cat /proc/kmsg

<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
<4>usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

I get these too, during bootup. I have a ruby script that runs and starts up a number of processes, initializes the home directories, does configuration - and runs from USB.

I get these errors (11 of them?) during the running of /etc/init.d/cupsys start.

Don't know why. Is it because we're running things from USB instead of just accessing USB?