From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 22:59:45 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 3A354106564A for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:59:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8568FC14 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so4865129wer.13 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=dKbb78PYaClW1Mu0oMOdD4BsSRrx2Ce4+6ikUksbaHE=; b=EJr7B7W4+dJl+LvPQqeksh9qPwYV7N3eQ6FHEA7OMRfJfasTyY2VCODUK0CAOu4Xux DYU9AuZtoLFNNmngJJcro1ElL0zYCjhh72ku1TknvjCyCKWa2mpadCT6wFKlM0vFdRzY +Sq28radGMPE5MtfZCsiV2LUfbZ5MCeYhhwZE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.24.7 with SMTP id q7mr14514996wif.14.1328309983493; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.22.129 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:59:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <76.CD.28959.BD5CB2F4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <76.CD.28959.BD5CB2F4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:59:43 -0500 Message-ID: From: Henry Olyer To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential 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: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:59:45 -0000 Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or test my USB receptacles? On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > 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? > > I have this drive, and it works on my new computer with FreeBSD 9.0 > beginning with BETA1, plugged into USB 3.0 port, but does not work on this > computer when plugged into USB 2.0 port. > > This same drive also works with Linux, using the System Rescue CD ( > http://sysresccd.org/). > > It came with one NTFS partition spanning the whole drive. > > I was able to copy out the data using the System Rescue CD and then > repartition with gpt/gpart. > > This drive was not accessible with NetBSD, OpenIndiana or FreeDOS. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > 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" >