usb v1.1 external 2.0" hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Howdy list,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic
> USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb
> Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive.
> 
> The device shows up like this:
> 
> Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage
> Device, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: da0 at
> umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Nov 18 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0:
> <USB 2.0 Storage Device 0100> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device Nov 18
> 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Nov 18 14:06:17
> trevarthan kernel: da0: 30520MB (62506080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T
> 3890C)
> 
> But `ls -al /dev/da*` reveals no slices:
> 
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  22 Nov 18 13:35 /dev/da0
> 
> The hard disk inside this enclosure was formatted with a 10gig
> FAT32 partition. It works fine in a Coolmax Gemini 2.5" USB 2.0/1.1
> drive enclosure, and it works fine in this enclosure as long as
> I'm running Windows XP. But it just doesn't want to work under
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE for some reason...
> 
> Does anyone have any clues to help get this drive working?

Anyone?

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