Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 14:52 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > esata are standard cables like usb 1, 2, 3, 4. You can just buy them for > a > > few $$ in your local AMZN store. > > Tomas, > > It's SATA, not eSATA. on the Mediasonic Probox. > > > You keep repeating that your cable is white - Are you expecting someone > > else to chip in and comment beside earlier advice from to connect some > USB > > 3 device with the cable and see what speed the kernel/driver uses? > > The cable itself is black, the inserts of the USB-A and USB-B plugs are > white. > > Well, if you know how to check the speed of an unmounted device I'd > appreciate your teaching me how to do this. > Please see previous post describing the commands (wasnit feom Ben?). You responded that it is not installed on your system - just install it and use any functional usb3 device to connect with the cable. If you do not have any such device or cannot follow the procedure - I would advice that you take the white color as USB 1.1 hint and purchase usb 3 cable which typically has blue insides. It is time effective and cheap way to be sure. Hope that helps, Tomas > > Regards, > > Rich >
Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: esata are standard cables like usb 1, 2, 3, 4. You can just buy them for a few $$ in your local AMZN store. Tomas, It's SATA, not eSATA. on the Mediasonic Probox. You keep repeating that your cable is white - Are you expecting someone else to chip in and comment beside earlier advice from to connect some USB 3 device with the cable and see what speed the kernel/driver uses? The cable itself is black, the inserts of the USB-A and USB-B plugs are white. Well, if you know how to check the speed of an unmounted device I'd appreciate your teaching me how to do this. Regards, Rich
Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
esata are standard cables like usb 1, 2, 3, 4. You can just buy them for a few $$ in your local AMZN store. You keep repeating that your cable is white - Are you expecting someone else to chip in and comment beside earlier advice from to connect some USB 3 device with the cable and see what speed the kernel/driver uses? Hope that helps, -T On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 08:56 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I have a Mediasonic box that I formerly connected with its USB 3.0 port > > with a 3.0 cable (everything blue). > > John, > > Well, my four-year-old Mediasonic has a white USB cable; I don't know where > I put the eSATA cable. > > > I mention this experience just so you know that I had a good experience > > with Mediasonic replacement parts. > > I'll contact Mediasonic and ask for a replacement eSATA cable and hook it > up > that way. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: I have a Mediasonic box that I formerly connected with its USB 3.0 port with a 3.0 cable (everything blue). John, Well, my four-year-old Mediasonic has a white USB cable; I don't know where I put the eSATA cable. I mention this experience just so you know that I had a good experience with Mediasonic replacement parts. I'll contact Mediasonic and ask for a replacement eSATA cable and hook it up that way. Thanks, Rich
Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >A new Probox support USB-3.0 or 3.1 speeds. I'll order a new one if >the old one has failed. I have a Mediasonic box that I formerly connected with its USB 3.0 port with a 3.0 cable (everything blue). One day it started disconnecting on me randomly, and eventually wouldn't connect at all. Next to its USB 3.0 port it had an eSATA port, so I bought an eSATA cable and used it to connect the box to an eSATA port on my laptop. But then I got a new laptop that lacked ] an eSATA port, so I contacted Mediasonic and for about $20 they sold me a new card with both connectors on it, which I used to replace the original card in the box. The card was just about 6cm square and replacing it was trivial. I mention this experience just so you know that I had a good experience with Mediasonic replacement parts. I still have the original card, now with a dead USB port and a working eSATA port. I saved it just 'cause I'm a clutter-butt.
Re: [PLUG] USB-A port colors and speeds
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: The Colors are often wrong. Use the usb link speed reported by linux to determine what your connected speed is. Ben, The tool, pv, is in the SBo repo but not installed. Since I cannot mount the Probox I probably cannot measure the link speed even if I installed it. If the square port you mentioned is USB Type B then you need to make sure the cable matches. You might have a 2.0 cable. The cable came with the Probox. UPDATE: I turned off the Probox, waited a few seconds, then turned it back on. I was able to mount /media/backup (drive bays 3 and 4 in the Probox), but cannot mount the LV: # mount /media/hd1 mount: special device /dev/probox_gv/data_store does not exist But, the old box is working and even if the USB speed is < 3.0 there's nothing in eiter the LV or backup that is speed-sensitive. fdisk -l has /dev/md0 following /dev/sde and /dev/sdf, the HDDs in bays 3 and 4, as well as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd which were a RAID1 array in virtural group probox_gv/data_store. I suppose that I need to rebuild the RAID1 array and the LV. Yes? Thanks, Rich
