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Date:      Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:17:26 -0700
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Cc:        Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com>, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2
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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 <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 3 August 2015 at 15:01, Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
> wrote:
> >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
> 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.
>
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