Hello Davidson :)
Le 14/02/2026 à 20:02, Davidson a écrit :
On Sat, 14 Feb 2026, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
Hello folks ^^)
There is a small problem that bug me since I've added a Fantec
usb3.2 enclosure to my setup,
reading disks from it is fine, BUT, writing to any of the 4 disks in
it cause problems.
The writes are put on hold many times at random moments... the main
cause being that the disk written to suddenly 'unmount' itself,
letting the write process in disarray. and me annoyed.
Your description reminds me of a recent thread I saw on another
listserv, which began with this post:
freebsd-questions "Not that SATA to USB controller question again"
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2026-February/007453.html
If it is irrelevant to your concern, forgive my ignorance.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this post :)
BTW, my problem seems different, as the 4 disks in the enclosure never
goes to 'sleep mode', it are always on spinning.
it's only when writing to it for some variable amount of time that the
problem arrise, and when writing to a disk, it should never 'unmount'
itself... but it does, each time, multiple times at variable moments of
the writing...
so, if the maintainer of the usb stack is reading this list, please tell
me what you need in term of report to correct that problem.
note, I have other single drive enclosures from Orico that put the disks
in sleep mode when it are NOT used for some times, helping it to not
suck power and keep cool when iddle, but I never had a single problems
with them as the disks remain mounted and respond promptly when asked
for read or write again. (btw, Orico multiple disks enclosures are way
pricer than the Fantec in question, so my choice of this one... and my
regrets to have done so...)
Thanks by advance :)
Jeff
What are the components (appart the usb storage driver) that can be
involved in this bug and what useful infos/log parts should I
provide to report this bug efficiently ?
Thanks by advance for the answers :)
Jeff
