USB Hard Drive Problems

[jhall at vandaliamo.net]

> On 11/8/05, jhall at vandaliamo.net <jhall at vandaliamo.net> wrote:
>> The actual enclosure is made by Western Digital.
>>
>> If I run usbdevs I receive the following output.
>>
>> addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel
>> addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel
>> addr 1: EHCI root hub, Intel
>>  addr 2: External HDD, Western Digital
>>
>> I'm guessing the device would be /dev/da0s1.
>>
>
> Most likely.
>
> The EHCI device claims to be buggy in 5.3 and 5.4.  You might try
> disabling it to see if the drive is correctly classified when it is
> handled by the UHCI device.  Actually, I don't even know if those are
> the drivers that do the device classification, but in the absence of
> that information, it seems worth a try.
>
> - Bob
>
Removing the EHCI device does not have any affect.

Thanks,


Jay