Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:59:43 -0500 From: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential Message-ID: <CAE7N2kfmtvAOJ0GWPK9C-W-=m5oAy_9V21niLuchS0kXe5OsRQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <76.CD.28959.BD5CB2F4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <CAE7N2kd3SH%2BWxqAEUWyWLcxy3nzT7%2BpyMi5KJh1G40=LG2FYzg@mail.gmail.com> <76.CD.28959.BD5CB2F4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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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 <mueller23@insightbb.com>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" >
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