Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:44:31 -0500 From: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential Message-ID: <CAE7N2keXKRA_XqUXJgorTEr2BZ9w27-Gg-eByd0yEQwhcvsPbg@mail.gmail.com>
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Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from other purchasers, what's the current buzz on this product. I don't want to bash the WD guys, in the past their products have been wonderful and it may turn out that this will the case here too. But after a lot of struggling, first with 3.x, now with 2.x, I'm still not able to get beyond /dev/da0. And yes I've tried mounting that but that doesn't work. And nothing I do seems to produce the needed /dev/da0s1, which is usually what I see to do a mount. I've been getting really good help from Roland and others here. We've been concentrating on the FBSD side of things and now I'm thinking that's not where the trouble is. So again, has anyone gotten a WD My Book Essential drive to work? With either USB 2.x or 3.x?
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