usb/99419: external usb harddrive slow to accept
Peter Schuller
peter.schuller at infidyne.com
Wed Dec 6 14:10:31 PST 2006
The following reply was made to PR usb/99419; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller at infidyne.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: usb/99419: external usb harddrive slow to accept
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:46:19 +0100
I have another datapoint that is interesting. This problem does not appear to
be even FreeBSD specific.
I bought two of these devices. One of them was plugged into the FreeBSD
machine (as per previous post). The second one I was holding off on. But
today I inserted it into an OpenSolaris machine (NexentaOS_20061012), and am
experiencing almost EXACTLY the same problem.
The kernel will detect the presence of it immediately, but trying to list
contents of /devices/pci at ... just leads to a hang. Until about 25 minutes or
so later when the kernel reports that the device is "online", and /devices
stops hanging (and rmformat etc works again).
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Solaris USB implementation
100% independent of the FreeBSD implementation? If so, and given the very
specific and IMO weird symptom of this bug, does not this indicate there may
be an actual bug in the device (even if it's not triggered in Windows or
Linux)?
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