SimpleTech USB HDD driver

[Scott Mitchell]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:06AM -0400, dodell at sitetronics.com wrote:
> I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with
> FreeBSD 4.8 (the 
> HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120). AFAIK, 4.8 doesn't support USB HDDs. Why
> is this?

Did you try plugging it in?  If it really is a USB mass storage device, it
is supported and should just work.  All the necessary drivers are already
there in the GENERIC kernel.

Some devices might require 'quirks' to be added to the kernel to get them
to work with 4.8 or earlier, but I think even this requirement has mostly
gone away in 4.9.

You might want to take a look at Dan Pelleg's DaemonNews article:
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html.  It talks about CF devices
but the part dealing with USB should also apply to disks.

	Scott