On 2.6.12-rc5 modprobe usb-storage hangs forever - it is reproducible most of the times. The last line in dmesg is - [ 155.995171] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Also interesting is this line - [ 40.586298] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ. Above happens intermittently. dmesg output (out) and SysRQ+T attached. Parag