Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:37:03 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: "dodell@sitetronics.com" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver Message-ID: <20030922123703.GB66910@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <410-22003912212246171@M2W073.mail2web.com> References: <410-22003912212246171@M2W073.mail2web.com>
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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
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