From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 06:12:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0725016A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay3.softcomca.com (relay3.softcomca.com [168.144.1.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386A443F93 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from M2W063.mail2web.com ([168.144.251.171]) by relay3.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: <410-220039122131250707@M2W063.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 81.69.92.101 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "dodell@sitetronics.com" To: scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org, dodell@sitetronics.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:12:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2003 13:12:50.0555 (UTC) FILETIME=[397BE4B0:01C3810B] Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dodell@sitetronics.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:12:52 -0000 Original Message: ----------------- From: Scott Mitchell scott+freebsd@fishballoon=2Eorg Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:37:03 +0100 To: dodell@sitetronics=2Ecom, freebsd-hackers@freebsd=2Eorg Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:06AM -0400, dodell@sitetronics=2Ecom wrote: > I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with= > FreeBSD 4=2E8 (the=20 > HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120)=2E AFAIK, 4=2E8 doesn't support USB HD= Ds=2E Why > is this? Did you try plugging it in? If it really is a USB mass storage device, it= is supported and should just work=2E All the necessary drivers are alread= y there in the GENERIC kernel=2E Some devices might require 'quirks' to be added to the kernel to get them to work with 4=2E8 or earlier, but I think even this requirement has mostl= y gone away in 4=2E9=2E You might want to take a look at Dan Pelleg's DaemonNews article: http://ezine=2Edaemonnews=2Eorg/200305/cfmount=2Ehtml=2E It talks about C= F devices but the part dealing with USB should also apply to disks=2E =09Scott -------------------------- Hey Scott, I just bought the thing and I'm at work, so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet=2E I've sent a=20 message to the SimpleTech support people=2E=2E=2E hopefully they're OSS fr= iendly=2E I'll give more=20 information as I have it=2E I was under the impression though that USB HDD= s were unsupported=20 in RELENG_4; I may be totally off base, in which case I apologize for sending unnecessary=20 emails to the list=2E Thanks for the link to the article; I'll let you know about my sucesses/failures=2E --Devon -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E