From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 14:31:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBEC1065670 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:31:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (adsl-70-129-195-213.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [70.129.195.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BC28FC15 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q13EVDIV062446 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:31:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:31:13 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" To: Mail-Reply-To: Message-ID: <7812e1a4e56393474531630a0b2f84f1@www.dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.6 Subject: USB 3 / eSATA support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:31:14 -0000 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: mem 0xfbf7f000-0xfbf7ffff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 usbus0: on ohci0 ehci0: mem 0xfbf7ec00-0xfbf7ecff irq 23 at device 2.1 on pci0 usbus1: on ehci0 ohci1: mem 0xfbf7d000-0xfbf7dfff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci0 usbus2: on ohci1 ehci1: mem 0xfbf7e800-0xfbf7e8ff irq 21 at device 4.1 on pci0 usbus3: on ehci1 ugen0.3: at usbus0 umass0: 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: 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/