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-li...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 3 August 2015 at 15:01, Paul Mather <freebsd-li...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> > wrote: > >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdou...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
