the WD USB 3.0 "My Book" Essential

[Thomas Mueller]

> Has anyone gotten one to work?

> Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x?  Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a
> different cable.  I do that.  Because I am wondering what's going on.
>  Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm
> not say that, YET.

> I'd like to hear from other purchasers, what's the current buzz on this
> product.  I don't want to bash the WD guys, in the past their products have
> been wonderful and it may turn out that this will the case here too.

> But after a lot of struggling, first with 3.x, now with 2.x, I'm still not
> able to get beyond /dev/da0.  And yes I've tried mounting that but that
> doesn't work.  And nothing I do seems to produce the needed /dev/da0s1,
> which is usually what I see to do a mount.

> I've been getting really good help from Roland and others here.  We've been
> concentrating on the FBSD side of things and now I'm thinking that's not
> where the trouble is.

> So again, has anyone gotten a WD My Book Essential drive to work?  With
> either USB 2.x or 3.x?

I have this drive, and it works on my new computer with FreeBSD 9.0 beginning with BETA1, plugged into USB 3.0 port, but does not work on this computer when plugged into USB 2.0 port.

This same drive also works with Linux, using the System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org/).

It came with one NTFS partition spanning the whole drive.

I was able to copy out the data using the System Rescue CD and then repartition with gpt/gpart.

This drive was not accessible with NetBSD, OpenIndiana or FreeDOS.

Tom