Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Velcro Leaf <velcroleaf@rocketmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hans.petter.selasky@bitfrost.no>, "freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't Message-ID: <1373973128.82056.YahooMailNeo@web164506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <zarafa.51e51b23.11cf.064f927970ce1f0b@mail.lockless.no> References: <201304211610.r3LGA21Y061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <zarafa.51e51b23.11cf.064f927970ce1f0b@mail.lockless.no>
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> The stalled messages has nothing to do with the mass storage part. It sim= ply indicates that some error happened during a USB control request.The USB= stack will re-try this particular message, so it is not directly dangerous= .=0A=0A=0AWell, the drive doesn't actually work on the other computer, so s= omething important is wrong.=A0 The fact that the other machine silently fa= ils is maybe more telling?=0A=0A> After many years in the USB game I feel a= need to emphasize again, that many of the mass storage related errors repo= rted here are not a USB HOST problem. There is a USB standard defined at ww= w.usb.org, that we are trying to comply to.=0A=0AI totally respect that, bu= t all these devices work with other OSs (which shall remain unnamed).=A0 Th= ere's intellectual purity and then there's getting the freaking things to w= ork.=A0 How do these other OSs deal with the quirks?=A0 Is it a matter of d= ownloading piles of drivers?=0A=0AI do like the idea of a FreeBSD Seal of A= pproval.=A0 It would save us all a lot of time.=0A=0AAny suggestion for fix= ing the problem?=A0 (Other than the long term, but probably fruitless, sugg= estion of complaining to Western Digital?)=0A
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