Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:55:50 +1000 From: matti k <matti.k@bigpond.net.au> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Drive Reliability Message-ID: <20080818195550.0517043b@platypus.freebsd.home> In-Reply-To: <48A8C40E.2060802@highperformance.net> References: <48A85276.7070306@highperformance.net> <20080818000858.D21615@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48A8C40E.2060802@highperformance.net>
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:36:30 -0700 "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and > >> detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the > >> experience of other users? > > > something more precise please? > > I realize that this is primarily a tech support forum. I wasn't > asking for a solution to the problem. I was asking for other peoples > experiences. If the USB support in FreeBSD was spotty according to > other people, as has been reported, then I plan to not even try to > work on it more until I install 7.1. > > Just for the record: > > - crashes the system on attachment > - crashes the system on detachment > - the system hangs on attachment but resumes responding if you pull > the drive > - installing the drive results in the little blue light coming on > with dmesg reporting attachment, but attempts to mount fail with > "device not configured" or somesuch > - dataloss on the device that chkdisk in DOS couldn't save > > Basically, every possible bad behavior that you could ask from a USB > connected drive has happened to me over time as I keep coming back > and trying USB drives. That's OK. I'm not upset. I'm not > complaining. I just want to know what to expect from USB drives in > FreeBSD. That sounds familiar, but I guess most USB storage devices are very similar, so maybe start looking at the USB controller. I know in my case, installing a PCI USB card with _NEC_ chipset solved all my problems. Thought it worth mentioning ... Cheers, Matti
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