Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:55:12 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work? Message-ID: <5380EB10.9030109@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On 05/24/14 20:43, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > I onw a 1TB HGST laptop drive. This has been installed into a > Patroit[tm] brand "Gauntlet II" external USB 3.0 enclosure. > > This drive has had all built-in diagnostics run on it, and it > is perfectly A-OK. It works compltely fine with no problems > on multiple Linux systems I have here. > > The motherboard on my main FreeBSD system is an ASRock N68C-GC FX, > and to that I have added one of these add-on USB 3.0 cards: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17Z-0002-00002 > > Unfortunately, the drive is not working at all with this system > or this card. When the device is plugged into one of the USB 3.0 > ports I get these messages in /var/log/messages: > > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: xhci_do_command: Command timeout! > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 3 failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored) > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: ugen2.3: <Unknown> at usbus2 (disconnected) > May 23 22:45:04 segfault kernel: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device > > No other messages appear in the log, and quite obviously, the drive > is utterly inaccessible to FreeBSD. > > This is extraoordinarily annoying, as I spend good money to buy this > add-in USB 3.0 card in the hopes that it would solve the problems > that I previously had with FreeBSD and a different USB 3.0 card, > and now it is all useless. > > Does FreeBSD support the "VIA VL800 Chipset" that this add-on card > is alleged to contain? > > Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment? Or is this > just a far off dream? > > > P.S. I know that FreeBSD doesn't have nearly as many people > working on it as Linux does, but I didn't really expect it to > be quite this far behind in terms of driver support for USB 3.0. > I mean how long has USB 3.0 been out now? Five+ years?? Hi, What version of FreeBSD are you running. Have you tried -stable? Yes, USB 3.0 _works_ with FreeBSD. --HPS
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