Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 05:12:17 +0000 From: "John" <lists@reiteration.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maxtor one touch usb 2.0 drive Message-ID: <20050226045908.M96182@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20050225065809.GC16523@darkpossum> References: <20050225065809.GC16523@darkpossum>
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:58:09 -0600, Redmond Militante wrote > hello > > i have a 250 maxtor one touch usb 2/1.1 external hard drive, i'm > trying to get it to work with my rel_end 5.21 box. i have > > device scbus > device da > device pass > device uhci > device ohci > device usb > device umass > > in my kernel. i'm trying to fdisk the drive to partition it right > now, but when i plug it in, it's not showing up in dmesg (no umass > or da0 device appears in dmesg). > > am i missing a step or is this device even incompatible? > > thanks I have the same (or very similar) drive, but mine has firewire capability as well as USB, and I have found the firewire support under freebsd 5.3 to be excellent, certainly much better than usb2. I got it working with USB but only at 1.1 speeds. The generic kernel supports firewire out-of-the-box. Here is some of my dmesg: [snip] fwohci0: <VIA Fire II (VT6306)> port 0xd400-0xd47f mem 0xe7000000-0xe70007ff irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:11:06:66:00:00:20:27 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 3 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 1024 bytes. fwohci0: max_rec 1024 -> 2048 firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0 sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me) firewire0: bus manager 1 (me) [more snippage] firewire0: New S400 device ID:0010b92100104612 da0 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <Maxtor OneTouch II 030d> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 50.000MB/s transfers da0: 239372MB (490234752 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30515C) running 5.3-RELEASE-p5 -- lists@reiteration.net
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