Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:03:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive Dock Message-ID: <925976.20238.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100802204204.GA23124@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive Dock To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 3:42 PM On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote: > I just purchased a setup which will allow me to access IDE and/or SATA > drives through a USB port. Of course I was hoping for it to work with > FreeBSD and in spite of the reviews which said it needed no Windows drive= rs > as soon as I opened it up there was a CD with the drivers for Windows on = it. Take a look at the Windows driver, especially the .INF files that come with it. Sometimes this gives you interesting info. It may also help to add the ID of this particular chip to the list in the umass driver. Maybe it also needs some quirks, as some other chips do. > So apparently the FreeBSD server senses when this thing is connected but = it > cannot see the drive connected to it. BTW - The FreeBSD server only repor= ts > anything when I power up the drive on the device. So again I see there mi= ght > be hope to access it. With multi-card readers it sometimes helps to touch(1) the device node. Hav= e you tried that? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0=A0=A0http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914=A0 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) =A0 I will give the drivers on the CD the once over as you suggest. I'm curious= about the touch command you recommend. By that do you mean I should =A0 # touch /dev/da0s1 =A0 or=20 =A0 # touch /dev/da0s1a...f =A0 I didn't know that the newer versions of FreeBSD would allow you to write i= n /dev folder. =0A=0A=0A
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