Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:50:05 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Subject: Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do Message-ID: <201206231550.06081.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <3A.82.12873.59975EF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <3A.82.12873.59975EF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I > tried the opposite. > I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works on a USB 3.0 port. One hard drive with USB 3.0 does not work on USB 3.0 but only on 2.0. Irony is that the PCBSD installer installed PCBSD on the USB 3.0 disk but it did not boot afterward. > I tried to access that USB 3.0 hard drive on the new computer from USB 2.0 > port because NetBSD has no USB 3.0 support: no go. Let me check this out. > > But when I installed USB 2.0 brackets to USB 2.0 headers on the > motherboard, the USB 3.0 hard drive was accessible from those USB 2.0 > ports. > Same as in my case. USB is more a lottery than real computing for me. Erich
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