From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 04:28:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AC1106566B for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9B58FC16 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so412360wer.13 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DbYAMQO1OF4gbj9AQRjFMvhZCGSDViAiLGhash9MVsY=; b=YiRbHQtGnNi8LsDG8IxyOEB+hHfnhDYVxxSElo8TIvmckBHsTrabH/iKZIgko1YT3g h91h3j519lsfpT/X1wOQrzedNyHURAW7gMNnXaXqIuGam7myEm7zXSHSHlS9muz7tLim lQReFmuofA73UnBdIUb163WUTyXKMGkSyJPug= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.132.88 with SMTP id n66mr3899502wei.32.1327724925599; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.229.26 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:28:45 -0500 Message-ID: From: Henry Olyer To: "illoai@gmail.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:28:47 -0000 When I look, I see a file /dev/da0, but I can't do anything with it. I've tried mount's and newfs and Fdisk, nothing works. Yes, their is an entry in the /dev directory, but no it doesn't do me a lot of good. Now, I am willing to do USB 2.0 transfers. I'm willing to lose the 3.0 support. I got this drive so I could back my machine up, but so far it's doing a perfectly fine imitation of a boat anchor. If I have to, I'll put up 9.x on another machine and simply do the transfers across a TCP/IP wire. A little slower but a day or so isn't critical. Now my questions: a) Am I supposed to be able to get USB 2.0 support by simply using a conventional cable? Because so far I'm getting nothing. b) Does 9.0 have USB 3.0 support. The device I am trying to use is a WD "My Essential Drive." On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 27 January 2012 22:55, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > On 27 January 2012 20:22, Henry Olyer wrote: > >> What's the plan? Anything I can do? > > > > I don't see any xhci(4) support in 8-STABLE, > > but then there's this: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231976.html > > Here's me correcting myself: > > ls /8-STABLE/src/sys/dev/usb/controller/ | grep xhci > xhci.c > xhci.h > xhci_pci.c > xhcireg.h > > Looks like it is also present in 8.2. > Doesn't look like it's in 8.1, though. > If upgrading to 8.2 isn't a possibility, the module probably > isn't impossible to backport. > > -- > -- >