Problems mounting External USB Drives

[Lawrence Houston]

DELL Precision Users:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Lawrence Houston wrote:

>                                                    I understand the USB Drive 
> Support within the 2.4 Kernels is "lacking" and upgrading to RHEL4 might be a 
> "Solution"???  Secondly one fellow on the RHEL3 List finds his "luck" with

We came across a second "Problem" while running the Rescue Mode from the 
Original RHEL3 CD-ROMs which came with the Precision 370: after having 
selected "linux rescue" from the opening prompt the USB Keyboard would no 
longer respond on any of the following screens (although this was NOT the 
case with RHEL4-U4's Rescue Mode)...  Some other posts mention USB 
Keyboard Issues related to USB Support within the BIOS and suggest 
Flashing the BIOS...  Currently we have A03 (the most recent Update being 
A08), where "Correct USB detach performance" is addressed...  Does anyone 
know if Flashing a Precisions 370's BIOS from A03 to A08 would help with 
either the original External USB Drive "Issue" or our newer RHEL3 USB 
Keyboard "Problem"???

Lawrence Houston  --  (dell at greenfield.dyndns.org)