USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 23 09:52:53 UTC 2012


On 21 June 2012 23:22, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:

> usbconfig -d 7.6 add_quirk UQ_MSC_NO_INQUIRY
>
> Then re-plug it.
>
> I'm sorry to say a lot of USB flash sticks out there are broken and only
> tested with the timing of MS Windows. Part of the problem is that it is
> difficult to autodetect these issues, because once you trigger the non-
> supported SCSI command, then the flash key stops working like you experience.
>
> I would be more than glad to open up an office to certify USB devices for use
> with FreeBSD :-)

Question - if that's the case, then why are we even doing that by default?



Adrian


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