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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:31:13 -0500
From:      "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer@dweimer.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   USB 3 / eSATA support
Message-ID:  <7812e1a4e56393474531630a0b2f84f1@www.dweimer.net>

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I am working on setting up a Bacula backup to an external hard drive.  
The server I am running this on has an on-board USB 2 controller, 
however the external USB 3 SATA drive doc I am using is only being 
recognized as USB 1.  It does correctly load as USB 2 or USB 3 if I move 
it to my windows machine which has both USB 2 and USB 3 ports.

Before I spend money adding a USB 3 card to the server in order to get 
the external drive doc to load as USB 3, I was wondering if anyone had 
any good or bad things to say about FreeBSD's USB 3 support.

Would I be a lot safer spending money on an eSATA card and a eSATA doc, 
knowing that this would give be better performance, but would prefer to 
not spend any more money than I have to.

Or maybe someone would have an idea as to something I could tweek to 
get more than 1MB/s transfer speed from my existing setup, if I could 
get the full speed of USB2.0 this would run adequate for my needs.

dmesg output for current devices information:
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfbf7f000-0xfbf7ffff irq 22 
at device 2.0 on pci0
usbus0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbf7ec00-0xfbf7ecff 
irq 23 at device 2.1 on pci0
usbus1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfbf7d000-0xfbf7dfff irq 20 
at device 4.0 on pci0
usbus2: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
ehci1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbf7e800-0xfbf7e8ff 
irq 21 at device 4.1 on pci0
usbus3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci1
ugen0.3: <vendor 0x174c> at usbus0
umass0: <vendor 0x174c product 0x5106, class 0/0, rev 2.10/0.01, addr 
3> on usbus0
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 80.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121601C)

Current machine is running a Biostar TPower N750 Motherboard, and the 
external drive doc is an INEO I-NA317U-Plus.

-- 
Thanks,
  Dean E. Weimer
  http://www.dweimer.net/



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