USB Mass Storage Hangs

[Stephen Marz]

This message regards the USB mass storage driver for kernel version
2.4.18-10:

On my Dell Inspiron 7500 I have an adaptec USB 2.0 cardbus
adapter.  I plugged in a 120GB hard drive and the mass
storage driver in linux detects it and runs it fine.  The
problem comes in when I try to also plug in my CD-RW into
the cardbus adapter (it has two USB 2.0 ports).  The mass
storage driver will detect and gather information about
the drive, however it doesn't take more than two or
three minutes before the entire system hangs.  The kernel
immediately drops all knowledge of any USB device on
my system.

Anybody else notice this problem?

Thanks,

Stephen Marz