From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:18:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9811A16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A7F43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:18:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMEBC-0005en-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:18:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMEBA-0005ef-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:18:37 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMEBA-0003In-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:18:36 +0100 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:18:36 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <20031118214036.GF89189@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: usb v1.1 external 2.0" hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:18:41 -0000 Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: >> I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic >> USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb >> Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive. > > I began hacking a uata (USB->ATA) bridge driver with sos's help today. > > It might help you. I seriously doubt it. :) I don't mind C coding a bit, but I'm afraid I don't know where to start here. Can anyone walk me through a low level troubleshooting process? Do I have to have CAMDEBUG in my kernel? (not a problem if I DO, but I don't right now) I'd personally like to know why the /dev/da0sN device isn't being created. I think identifying the reason for it not being created > Some of the cheaper enclosures use USB->ATA bridge > chips which aren't handled by the standard umass driver. Might be the case here. Windows XP detects it as a "USB to ATAPI" bridge though. The Coolmax Gemini enclosure (the one that works with FreeBSD) is detected by Windows XP as a genuine "USB to IDE" device. > Before anyone asks, these are evil, and don't talk SCSI/UFI/etc, they > talk ATA task file register over USB, so branching off ata is more > appropriate; I should be able to leverage most of the existing ATAng > code base for this. Well, I'd be happy to help you test if we can somehow confirm that my device is indeed one of these ugly USB->ATA devices. I'm not 100% convinced though. Take a look at these two posts that have exactly the same dmesg: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-August/008504.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2003-July/000393.html The last fellow shows that his drive works perfectly under Linux with SCSI emulation. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net