Genesys gl811e - based usb mass storage

[Christopher Friedt]

Hi everyone,

This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but I picked up a usb 2.0 hard disk 
enclosure created by a company called 'inLine' in Germany, and it was 
unfortunately not autodetected as a mass storage device with the linux 
kernel (2.6.19).

The exact output from dmesg is:

usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
PM: Adding info for usb:1-1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.14_ep00
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:1-1:1.0
scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
PM: Adding info for No Bus:host10
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.14_ep81
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.14_ep02
usb-storage: device found at 14
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
PM: Adding info for No Bus:target10:0:0
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 14
PM: Removing info for No Bus:usbdev1.14_ep81
PM: Removing info for No Bus:usbdev1.14_ep02
scsi 10:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery

the chip is called 'gl811e' and it supports devices > 137 GB, which is 
apparently a limit of some sort... Anyway, the usb/ide converter is 
non-standard and would force run-time exceptions to be taken for these 
chips.

Any suggestions from kernel developers?


~/Chris
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