5.3 external ehci dvd drive

jason jason at ec.rr.com
Wed Oct 27 13:45:26 PDT 2004


Dick Davies wrote:

>Just got a new usb 2 enclosure and swapped out my internal cd/dvd drive to
>it. I can mount it fine on 5.3 as cd(4) over umass(4) but it's too slow to
>play DVDs over. 
>
>Has anyone got this working, and is there a step I've missed?
>The 1Mb/s speed line looks worrying, though usbdevs does show it hanging off
>echi
>
>cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>cd0: <SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B T503> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
>cd0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>
>?
>
>  
>
I just saw on the list where FreeBSD does not have full usb2 support in 
the drivers yet.  The currents drivers will allow operation, but not at 
the new speeds.


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