Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-29 Thread Mark Ovens
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Roland Smith wrote: You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to use atausb. Thanks Roland, but I can't find

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-29 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: Hi Roland, I had to rebuild the kernel without umass in it first, but here's the result. Follow up: I discovered that atausb wants to attach the disk as a floppy and I don't have a FD so the module isn;t compiled into my kernel. kldload'd atapifd.ko and it now sees

RE: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-29 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Mark Ovens If anyone can tell me how to debug this to try to get to the cause so a fix can be found then I'm happy to spend the time doing so. Unless you are already familiar with the drivers and the bus itself, or want to learn more about it than anyone should ever need to know, it is

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-29 Thread Mark Ovens
Bob McConnell wrote: From: Mark Ovens If anyone can tell me how to debug this to try to get to the cause so a fix can be found then I'm happy to spend the time doing so. Unless you are already familiar with the drivers and the bus itself, or want to learn more about it than anyone should

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: MAXTOR 6 L040J2

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb buss, just to experiment and see if that

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Mark Ovens wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb buss, just to experiment

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver code that resets his usb buss, just to experiment and

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:27:06PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Bought an external USB HD enclosure but it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE: umass0: Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: MAXTOR 6 L040J2 \\

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Roland Smith wrote: You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to use atausb. Thanks Roland, but I can't find atausb in either 6.3 or 7.0 - is it a kld module? Presumably, it would not work

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Roland Smith wrote: You could try using the atausb driver instead of umass. Unfortunately it doesn't have a manpage yet, but you have to unload umass if you want to use atausb. Thanks Roland, but I can't find atausb in either

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Roland Smith wrote: Yes; $ locate atausb /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atausb/Makefile (This is on 7-STABLE) Ah, so it's not built by default! Presumably, it would not work with other usb mass storage devices like memory sticks or phones? It should work with

Re: External USB disk won't mount

2008-05-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ovens wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I saw a mail yesterday about something nearly like this, from nej, except with him, the umass device wasn't reporting anything at all, no device when he plugged it in. I sent him a little piece of usb driver