From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 16:17:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964539B24A3 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x236.google.com (mail-wi0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D7C716B6 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by wibxm9 with SMTP id xm9so121463607wib.1 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:17:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XJlX6VtBCP0Xw25A8QLKI2/lnv4Etfbr06bbCWUwIXc=; b=pRCl+um+KouMKXLadCPkD8NbQNzPYQdrV4EN7gCDFfrwoC0ZuwieG2F3BeFJhvcIO0 FDrNcWCvjvfHJiu3aVGWpvTNBUxJrtPHMgLHlxhSy/36KozoDEeHnaM9GCTEtz/TP/It T2eBLa2ACLbpWezWNnKnEnjf1z+2zUVJEe6dcR4El/r6pz06hBw98Frp+OJSmF2zBWoY iwNwJ0fiyUhv1848FPrlyN4Otvii3rz29OjZxGAx5sxkDuGqdzeZB3dM8pROuGM+e4U/ 3IpYVLs1YH5XJSNRigRdfIKr39yjgugtAllbMgsXHy54PMJS4egs/nc3VFMEbLMRogj8 Nyvg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.94.168 with SMTP id dd8mr35671257wib.76.1438618646709; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.91.129 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:17:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <99D5AABE-39D2-4471-B707-FA46CF631BEE@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <410CF5C1-2BF7-45E8-9707-12F26C4D62A1@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <55BEC52A.6080901@egr.msu.edu> <268B6AD7-FCD8-4085-B479-DF8B319860B3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <99D5AABE-39D2-4471-B707-FA46CF631BEE@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:17:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2 From: Jack Vogel To: Paul Mather Cc: Alban Hertroys , Adam McDougall , freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:17:28 -0000 Have you tried it on HEAD, and have you tried it on the same system with some recent flavor of Linux? Jack On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Paul Mather < freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > > > On 3 August 2015 at 15:01, Paul Mather > wrote: > >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Adam McDougall > wrote: > >> > >>> On 08/02/2015 21:22, Paul Mather wrote: > >>>> I have a 4TB external USB drive (Western Digital My Book 1230) that I > am trying to use under FreeBSD/amd64 10.2 (10.2-PRERELEASE #0 r286052: Wed > Jul 29 20:59:39 EDT 2015). This system has a MSI 760GMA-P34 (FX) > motherboard. > >>>> > >>>> The drive probes unreliably when plugged in to a USB 3 port. It > reliably probes when plugged into a USB 2 port. However, it works in > neither cases. Attempting to dd from the drive results in a "dd: /dev/da0: > Invalid argument". > > > > FYI: I had been experiencing the same with a 2 TB WD MyBook on OS X > > (Mavericks). The drive was being used for Time Machine backups, but it > > would at irregular intervals it would just 'disconnect' itself. My > > guess is that there's a firmware problem in the USB3 chip in those > > drives. > > > > After trying to get the issue fixed for almost half a year I returned > > it and replaced it by a Seagate, which has been working flawlessly > > ever since. > > > > I'm just saying, perhaps the problem isn't with FreeBSD but with the > drive. > > > I'd love just to get to the "randomly disconnects" stage under FreeBSD at > this point. :-) > > Up to now, I have been unable to read ANY data off the drive under > FreeBSD, either via USB 2 or USB 3. :-( > > However, you have given me something to think about: does anyone know of a > 4 TB USB 2 or 3 drive that will work reliably under FreeBSD 10-STABLE right > now? > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >