Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:12:50 -0400 From: "dodell@sitetronics.com" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org, dodell@sitetronics.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver Message-ID: <410-220039122131250707@M2W063.mail2web.com>
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Original Message: ----------------- From: Scott Mitchell scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:37:03 +0100 To: dodell@sitetronics.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:06AM -0400, dodell@sitetronics.com wrote: > I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with > FreeBSD 4.8 (the > HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120). AFAIK, 4.8 doesn't support USB HDDs. Why > is this? Did you try plugging it in? If it really is a USB mass storage device, it is supported and should just work. All the necessary drivers are already there in the GENERIC kernel. Some devices might require 'quirks' to be added to the kernel to get them to work with 4.8 or earlier, but I think even this requirement has mostly gone away in 4.9. You might want to take a look at Dan Pelleg's DaemonNews article: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html. It talks about CF devices but the part dealing with USB should also apply to disks. Scott -------------------------- Hey Scott, I just bought the thing and I'm at work, so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I've sent a message to the SimpleTech support people... hopefully they're OSS friendly. I'll give more information as I have it. I was under the impression though that USB HDDs were unsupported in RELENG_4; I may be totally off base, in which case I apologize for sending unnecessary emails to the list. Thanks for the link to the article; I'll let you know about my sucesses/failures. --Devon -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .home | help
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