From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 07:41:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD24516A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:41:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C59F43D5D for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:41:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 580 invoked by uid 1006); 8 Nov 2005 07:41:33 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:SA:0(-0.8/100.0):. Processed in 1.092199 secs); 08 Nov 2005 07:41:33 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (10.75.0.10) by -v with SMTP; 8 Nov 2005 07:41:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 24266 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2005 07:41:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 8 Nov 2005 07:41:31 -0000 Received: from 12.170.206.13 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:41:31 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <1758.12.170.206.13.1131435691.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:41:31 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: USB Hard Drive Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:41:36 -0000 Recently, I purchased several Western Digital External Hard Drives to be used for backup purposes. The test unit I purchased worked out of the box, but I am having problems getting the newer ones to work. When they are plugged in to a FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 server, I receive the following messages: Nov 8 01:31:12 test kernel: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/6.02 Nov 8 01:31:12 test kernel: uhid0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/6.02, addr2, iclass 8/6 This is where my confusion lies. From what I can see the hard drive is detected properly as a umass device, but is also detected as a human input device. And, the da device, which I think I will use to access the device is not created. If I plug my memory stick into the USB port, the memory stick is detected and I am able to access the device through da0. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jay