Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:29:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jcw@highperformance.net Subject: Re: USB Drive Reliability Message-ID: <200808191329.m7JDT1qm008957@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <48A85276.7070306@highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells 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? I guess I've been lucky, because I haven't had much of a problem with various USB storage devices so far. I haven't been on FreeBSD 6.x for long, though; I went straight to 7-current a few months before 7.0 was released, then followed the 7-stable branch. The only thing that doesn't work is detaching a device (whether USB or other) while it is still mounted. This is supposed to be fixed in 8-current. (My personal impression is that 8-current is quite reliable at the moment, so if you have a spare machine it might be worth giving it a try. Be sure to subscribe to the -current mailing list so you don't miss any important "heads up" messages.) Another thing worth mentioning is that a new USB stack is under development by Hans Petter Selasky. I'm not sure when it will be committed to 8-current, but I think it's pretty much ready. It will certainly fix some of the problems people are seeing with the old USB stack. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality." -- The Dalai Lama
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