On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 20:27 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:12:55 -0700 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > "lsusb -t" will show you what ports things are plugged into. The > > backups might have been working but was it running at USB3 speeds or > > just USB2? The cable might be perfectly fine for USB2, but it sounds > > like the system thought it should be a USB3 device, but it wasn't working. > > Maybe it is just USB drive weirdness. Each drive I have apparently > includes a hub, not just a direct drive connection (some sort > of nonsense related to the Windows encryption stuff I utterly > ignore). Usb 2 port 8 is apparently the hub, not the drive: > > /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/10p, 10000M > |__ Port 3: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M > |__ Port 5: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M > |__ Port 8: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M > |__ Port 1: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M > > I swear the next time I get a new backup drive it is simply going > to be one of those devices you can plug a sata disk into to talk > over USB. Protect me from all the "helpful" features :-).
Good luck with that. I just returned one of those because Linux didn't even recognise it when I plugged it in (nothing in the journal, nothing in dmesg). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
