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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:57:56 +1000 (EST)
From:      "ana" <ana@metahusky.net>
To:        "Paul English" <penglish@hydro.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems connecting USB hard disk
Message-ID:  <23368.203.8.18.100.1090461476.squirrel@huskian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040714172828.N56616-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>
References:  <20040714172828.N56616-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>

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Hi,

I maybe wrong here, but i think it has something to do with you using
USB2.0 enclosure. 4.9 doesn't support USB2.0, from 4.10 it does.

This maybe your problem.

Maybe someone else from the list may have a better idea than i do.

Good luck

--
ams

> 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: <WDC WD25 00JB-22FUA0 15.0> 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
>
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