External HD not working

[Andrea Venturoli]

Hello.

I'm not sure this is a FreeBSD problem (as opposed to an hardware 
problem), since I've had no chance to test on different OSes...

I've got a WD RED 3TB SATA drive and it won't work if attached as an 
external drive.



I first tried with an USB-to-SATA adapter (which has always worked with 
different HDs) on a 10.2/i386 and I got:
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus10 target 0 lun 0
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: <WDC WD30 EFRX-68EUZN0 > Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: Serial Number 000001D91CC4
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: 40.000MB/s transfers
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C)
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: quirks=0xa<NO_6_BYTE,4K>
 > ...
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
 > (repeat ad lib until I disconneted it or the box wouldn't boot)
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus10 target 0 lun 0
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: da7: <WDC WD30 EFRX-68EUZN0 > s/n 000001D91CC4 detached
> Apr 16 09:04:51 alamar kernel: (da7:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Periph destroyed



So I tried a eSATA-to-SATA adapter on a 9.3/i386 box, but connecting it 
didn't trigger anything: everything was like I didn't even plug it in (I 
heard the drive spinning, though).



The drive works perfectly on three different computers if connected on 
the SATA controller on the MB.



Any hint?
At least knowing if it's an hardware or FreeBSD limitation could help me 
get on the right track.



  bye & Thanks
	av.