From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 17:03:51 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 8990516A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:03:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (dynamic.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413C943D2D for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i6MH3o0U086429; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost)i6MH3o6C086426; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: dynamic.hydro.washington.edu: penglish owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English To: ana In-Reply-To: <23368.203.8.18.100.1090461476.squirrel@huskian.com> Message-ID: <20040722095715.L86362-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 17:03:51 -0000 > 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. Thanks Ana. I was actually incorrect about my setup - the disk is currently plugged into a FreeBSD 4.4 system and the other system I tried it on was 4.10 not 4.9! My understanding was that even when USB 2.0 is not supported, assuming that the disk is recognized it should be recognized as USB 1.1, since both the controller and disk are fully backwards compatible. That has been my experience under Windows and Linux anyway. I can be almost certain that USB 2.0 is not supported on FreeBSD 4.4, but those errors indicate that the disk is at least recognized, but nothing useful can be done with it. Strangely when I had it on the 4.10 system it was not even recognized! dmesg did not even seem to notice it. I even tried using kldload to load modules like umass, but no dice. This is why I switched it to the 4.4 system where at least it is recognized. At the moment I don't care *where* I get it connected so long as it is to a FreeBSD system since I need to format it to a FreeBSD filesystem rather than FAT32. Ideally though I'd like to have it connected to a 4.10 (and in the future presumably a 4.11 or 5.X when 5.X is production quality). Paul