USB 2.0 Support (re-post, more info)

Bob Johnson fbsdlists at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 14:46:24 GMT 2005


On 11/8/05, Nathan Vidican <nvidican at wmptl.com> wrote:
> I tried plugging the device in to all four ports on the USB 2.0 PCI Card, to
> no
> avail, no device/event is registered. I read the manpage on usbd, and it
> appears
> to be monitoring/watching for devices. I connect the device to one of the
> two
> ports on the mainboard, and I get this:
>
>
> uhub3: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port 1
> umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
> umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
> umass0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
> umass0: detached
> umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
> umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
> da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da1: <WDC WD16 00JB-98GVA0 \\0000\\0000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da1: 1.000MB/s transfers
> da1: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
>
> Yet again, my transfer speed is limited to the USB 1.1 specification of this
>
> controller, and it's terribly slow to be pulling 100GB tar files off of :(


USB 2.0 support is provided by the ehci(4) driver, which is not in a
default install.  It is also buggy, at least in 5.4-R.  I use Firewire
for large external drives.

- Bob


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