Over the weekend I took the plunge and installed diablo on my N800. I managed to get just about everything working again; screen rotation, cloning to flash and booting from memory card, tons of applications... And then I decided to try my USB OTG adapter with my thumb (flash) drives. NONE of them worked. They ALL worked fine with chinook, even those with flashing LEDs. So I tried a powered USB hub. No luck. Granted it's a cheap hub, so maybe that's the problem.

Then I thought that perhaps all the extra stuff I installed was causing problems. So I reflashed diablo and tried with a fresh system. Still no luck. It took me a couple of hours to get everything back to normal (external boot menu, mainly). I can boot to my cloned diablo partition AND also my old cloned chinook system. The results are the same regardless of which partition/OS I boot to. "/sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode" shows "a_host", so it's definitely seeing the device, and "lsusb" shows a couple of the thumb drives (but not all).

As a last ditch effort, I tried my external USB HDD (self-powered). SUCCESS!!! So the thing works after all, wow!

But this makes me wonder why the flash drives that worked just fine with chinook fail to work in diablo. And why don't those flash drives work when I boot into the chinook partition? Is it something to do with the initfs bootmenu stuff? I'm curious if other people have seen something similar with their chinook-to-diablo upgrade experience.

Thanks for reading my plaint.