From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 01:36:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5019D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:36:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (dynamic.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F08543D1F for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i6M1ah0U084335 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost)i6M1ahML084332 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: dynamic.hydro.washington.edu: penglish owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:36:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040714172828.N56616-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Problems connecting USB hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:36:44 -0000 I'm trying to set up a USB disk on FreeBSD 4.9 and having some trouble. it is apparently recognized by the OS, but when I try to do anything with it, it spews a whole bunch of errors: fdisk /dev/da0 fdisk: can't open device /dev/da0 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: Input/output error ponic# Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 0 1 0 Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 0 1 0 Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid command operation code Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid command operation code Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: da0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 Jul 14 17:25:33 ponic /kernel: da0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 I did a MAKEDEV da0. I rebooted the machine. I made sure usbd was running. What else is there to do? There is nothing particularly special about this disk. This is how it is recognized in dmesg (followed immediately by a duplicate of the above errors): umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 650KB/s transfers da0: 238475MB (488397169 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 41867C) It is actually a Western Digital 250GB 7200rpm PATA hard drive in a "Metal Gear Box" Firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure. Paul