From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 13:25:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 3A5F516A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:25:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32FE43D45 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:25:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA8DPQsp055435; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:25:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <4370A70F.8010305@wmptl.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:24:31 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jhall@vandaliamo.net References: <1758.12.170.206.13.1131435691.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <1758.12.170.206.13.1131435691.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.111 () RATWR10_MESSID X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:25:24 -0000 What type of enclosure are you using, is the actual enclosure made by Western Digital? We use a 'generic' enclosure with a 250GB ATA Western Digital drive in it - and aside from not having USB 2.0 host/speed... it works quite well. Mounts as /dev/da1s1d. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >