Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:31:13 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: USB 3 / eSATA support Message-ID: <7812e1a4e56393474531630a0b2f84f1@www.dweimer.net>
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I am working on setting up a Bacula backup to an external hard drive. The server I am running this on has an on-board USB 2 controller, however the external USB 3 SATA drive doc I am using is only being recognized as USB 1. It does correctly load as USB 2 or USB 3 if I move it to my windows machine which has both USB 2 and USB 3 ports. Before I spend money adding a USB 3 card to the server in order to get the external drive doc to load as USB 3, I was wondering if anyone had any good or bad things to say about FreeBSD's USB 3 support. Would I be a lot safer spending money on an eSATA card and a eSATA doc, knowing that this would give be better performance, but would prefer to not spend any more money than I have to. Or maybe someone would have an idea as to something I could tweek to get more than 1MB/s transfer speed from my existing setup, if I could get the full speed of USB2.0 this would run adequate for my needs. dmesg output for current devices information: ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfbf7f000-0xfbf7ffff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 usbus0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbf7ec00-0xfbf7ecff irq 23 at device 2.1 on pci0 usbus1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0 ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfbf7d000-0xfbf7dfff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci0 usbus2: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1 ehci1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbf7e800-0xfbf7e8ff irq 21 at device 4.1 on pci0 usbus3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci1 ugen0.3: <vendor 0x174c> at usbus0 umass0: <vendor 0x174c product 0x5106, class 0/0, rev 2.10/0.01, addr 3> on usbus0 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 80.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121601C) Current machine is running a Biostar TPower N750 Motherboard, and the external drive doc is an INEO I-NA317U-Plus. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/
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