Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help making sense of firewire disk enclosure dilema Message-ID: <20040822193851.K94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <16679.59263.287454.325068@rosebud.alerce.com> References: <16679.59263.287454.325068@rosebud.alerce.com>
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, George Hartzell wrote: > > I have a machine running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6. > > I purchased a pair of "Vantec" USB2.0/Firewire enclosures (NST-350UF) > for some 80-ish GB IBM Deskstar drives. > > The first enclosure worked great (once I got past the kernel panic > because it didn't like something that was hanging out in the partition > table area). > > The second enclosure was problematic. If I attached via USB1 (all I > have), it worked fine. If I hook it up to a G4 Powermac running OSX > Jaguar (current-1?), it works fine. But when I connect it via > firewire to Servant, GEOM never recognizes/creates a daX device. Have you tried 'camcontrol rescan X' where X is the appropriate SCSI bus? (camcontrol devlist -v can help you find the right bus number.) I have this problem with certain USB key storage devices as well. It depends on how long the device takes to come ready. Some are better than others. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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