Disks are 1 sector smaller with USB bridge

2012-09-06 Thread Dieter BSD
FreeBSD reports that disks are 1 sector smaller when connected via a usb-to-sata bridge than when connected to a sata controller. This creates a problem when migrating a disk from a sata controller to a usb bridge, the data in the last sector is no longer accessable. How do I access the disk's

Re: Disks are 1 sector smaller with USB bridge

2012-09-08 Thread Dieter BSD
[ ml didn't get cc-ed ] - Original Message - From: Dieter BSD Sent: 09/07/12 11:28 AM To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Disks are 1 sector smaller with USB bridge - Original Message - From: Warner Losh Sent: 09/06/12 08:27 PM To: Dieter BSD Subject: Re: Disks are 1

PCIe to USB to PCIe

2015-09-04 Thread Dieter BSD
A very small PCIe x1 card with USB 3.0 controller, a USB cable, and a small pcb with a PCIe x16 slot. Intended to allow using x16 video cards with x1 slots, and reducing power/space/cooling demands on mainboard. Claim: "No Driver necessary" Can these things possibly work? If they do, it seems

AX88179 USB-to-Ethernet is slow and silently corrupts data

2018-04-10 Thread Dieter BSD
10.3-RELEASE amd64 with ECC memory VIA VL805 USB 3.0 controller ue0 is Siig USB-to-Ethernet Chipset: AX88179 ugen0.7: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=ON (124mA) ue0: flags=8c43 metric 0 mtu 1500