From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 20:13: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7347037B402 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:12:21 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id ECBA1408A; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:07:51 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Mike Meyer" Subject: Re: USB drive -- problems Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:07:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <15460.38437.93783.37935@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15460.38437.93783.37935@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020209040751.ECBA1408A@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 08 February 2002 10:23 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Brian T.Schellenberger types: > > Ok, with little confidence it would work, since I could find no very good > > info on USB & FreeBSD, and there was no response to my query on the > > subject, I decided in a "what the hell" moment to get a USB drive and see > > what happened. > > > > I have a LaCie 80G drive. It was $250 for 80, USB 2, and if it works it > > should be pretty darn cool. > > > > It is recognized by the kernel, so I thought I was doing pretty well, but > > when I try to actually do anything with it, I run into trouble. Here are > > some messages from /var/log messages, first hte successful boot stuff and > > then the failure messages: > > > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: uhci0: > controller USB-A> port 0xbce0-0xbcff irq 11 at device 31.2 on pci0 > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: usb0: > controller USB-A> on uhci0 > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0 > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev > > 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self > > powered Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: umass0: LaCie LaCie StudioDrive USB2 > > , rev 2.00/10.06, addr 2 > > > > > > Feb 3 04:31:21 i8k /kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > Feb 3 04:31:22 i8k /kernel: da0: Fixed Direct > > Access SCSI-0 device > > Feb 3 04:31:22 i8k /kernel: da0: 650KB/s transfers > > Feb 3 04:31:22 i8k /kernel: da0: 78167MB (160086528 512 byte sectors: > > 64H 32S/T 12631C) > > > > > > Feb 3 05:08:48 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 > > 0 1 0 > > Feb 3 05:08:48 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST > > asc:21,0 Feb 3 05:08:48 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Logical > > block address out of range > > Feb 3 05:08:57 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 > > 0 1 0 > > Feb 3 05:08:57 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST > > asc:21,0 Feb 3 05:08:57 i8k /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Logical > > block address out of range > > > > The set of error messages above were returned when I did a simple > > > > dd if=/dev/da0 > > That looks like it may be dd trying to read past the end f the disk, > and the disk not handling it very well. You should have gotten a count > of records from the dd. Did it match the length of the drive? No, it errors out after mere seconds, and if I give a count it errors with 10 records. I guess I went too far in trying to simplify the command. > > > On the other hand, I *can* actually do an fdisk and it will at least tell > > me that I have an 80G drive, so clearly *some* level of i/o must be > > working. > > Have you tried writing a slice table to the drive with fdisk? Yes, I can't get that to work quite right either. I'll post more complete info shortly. > > http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message