USB Hard Drive Problems

[Nathan Vidican]

What type of enclosure are you using, is the actual enclosure made by Western 
Digital? We use a 'generic' enclosure with a 250GB ATA Western Digital drive in 
it - and aside from not having USB 2.0 host/speed... it works quite well. Mounts 
as /dev/da1s1d.

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Nathan Vidican
nvidican at wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/


jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
> Recently, I purchased several Western Digital External Hard Drives to be
> used for backup purposes.  The test unit I purchased worked out of the
> box, but I am having problems getting the newer ones to work.
> 
> When they are plugged in to a FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 server, I receive the
> following messages:
> 
> Nov  8 01:31:12 test kernel: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev
> 2.00/6.02
> Nov  8 01:31:12 test kernel: uhid0: Western Digital External HDD, rev
> 2.00/6.02, addr2, iclass 8/6
> 
> This is where my confusion lies.  From what I can see the hard drive is
> detected properly as a umass device, but is also detected as a human input
> device.  And, the da device, which I think I will use to access the device
> is not created.
> 
> If I plug my memory stick into the USB port, the memory stick is detected
> and I am able to access the device through da0.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> Jay
> 
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