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=2Eorg Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:37:03 +0100 To: dodell@sitetronics=2Ecom, freebsd-hackers@freebsd=2Eorg Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:06AM -0400, dodell@sitetronics=2Ecom wrote: > I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with= > FreeBSD 4=2E8 (the=20 > HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120)=2E AFAIK, 4=2E8 doesn't support USB HD= Ds=2E 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=2E All the necessary drivers are alread= y there in the GENERIC kernel=2E Some devices might require 'quirks' to be added to the kernel to get them to work with 4=2E8 or earlier, but I think even this requirement has mostl= y gone away in 4=2E9=2E You might want to take a look at Dan Pelleg's DaemonNews article: http://ezine=2Edaemonnews=2Eorg/200305/cfmount=2Ehtml=2E It talks about C= F devices but the part dealing with USB should also apply to disks=2E =09Scott -------------------------- Hey Scott, I just bought the thing and I'm at work, so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet=2E I've sent a=20 message to the SimpleTech support people=2E=2E=2E hopefully they're OSS fr= iendly=2E I'll give more=20 information as I have it=2E I was under the impression though that USB HDD= s were unsupported=20 in RELENG_4; I may be totally off base, in which case I apologize for sending unnecessary=20 emails to the list=2E Thanks for the link to the article; I'll let you know about my sucesses/failures=2E --Devon -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E
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