From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 18:54:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08A74CFE for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 18:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (mail.turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d16:4514::2]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFC9A23D5 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 18:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BF471FE026; Sat, 24 May 2014 20:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5380EB10.9030109@selasky.org> Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:55:12 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work? References: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 18:54:33 -0000 On 05/24/14 20:43, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > I onw a 1TB HGST laptop drive. This has been installed into a > Patroit[tm] brand "Gauntlet II" external USB 3.0 enclosure. > > This drive has had all built-in diagnostics run on it, and it > is perfectly A-OK. It works compltely fine with no problems > on multiple Linux systems I have here. > > The motherboard on my main FreeBSD system is an ASRock N68C-GC FX, > and to that I have added one of these add-on USB 3.0 cards: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17Z-0002-00002 > > Unfortunately, the drive is not working at all with this system > or this card. When the device is plugged into one of the USB 3.0 > ports I get these messages in /var/log/messages: > > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: xhci_do_command: Command timeout! > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 3 failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored) > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: ugen2.3: at usbus2 (disconnected) > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device > > No other messages appear in the log, and quite obviously, the drive > is utterly inaccessible to FreeBSD. > > This is extraoordinarily annoying, as I spend good money to buy this > add-in USB 3.0 card in the hopes that it would solve the problems > that I previously had with FreeBSD and a different USB 3.0 card, > and now it is all useless. > > Does FreeBSD support the "VIA VL800 Chipset" that this add-on card > is alleged to contain? > > Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment? Or is this > just a far off dream? > > > P.S. I know that FreeBSD doesn't have nearly as many people > working on it as Linux does, but I didn't really expect it to > be quite this far behind in terms of driver support for USB 3.0. > I mean how long has USB 3.0 been out now? Five+ years?? Hi, What version of FreeBSD are you running. Have you tried -stable? Yes, USB 3.0 _works_ with FreeBSD. --HPS