Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:55:25 -0400 From: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> To: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections Message-ID: <2b5f066d05042207557562b2ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050422144807.37575.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050422144807.37575.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com>
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I tried, but I ended up returning the enclosures. I had a problem where anytime I would output lots of data to the drive (say 2 PCs copying a 4gb file to it), the drive would "dissapear" and hang the system. Happened on both Windows and FreeBSD though. IIRC, it was the newer Prolific chipset. On 4/22/05, scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> wrote: > Has anyone had any luck in using external USB2.0 > enclosures on FreeBSD 5.3? I've picked up 2 of them > with different chipsets and have 2 USB2.0 to IDE > converter cables. My kernel has support for ehci so > that's not an issue, but every time i plug one of > these devices it, it's detected as da0 and a umass > device, and I'm told data transfer is limited to > 1Mb/s. attempting to mount da0 doesn't work. >=20 > has anyone had any experience in using these types of > devices? >=20 > thanks >=20 > scott >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 --=20 _-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_-=3D-_ Brian McCann Systems & Network Administrator, K12USA "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
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