USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-22 Thread Donald Allen
I have tried periodically to use FreeBSD -- a couple of the 7.x releases, 8.0 and now 8.1. I do my backups on Seagate SATA drives in USB shoeboxes with ext2 filesystems. These drives work fine with Linux (Slackware) and OpenBSD. But with FreeBSD, absolutely no luck. The 7.x releases would freeze or

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: >>> Donald Allen wrote: >> >> After the above, if I remove the USB connector and plug it back in, X >> freezes (the cursor moves with the mouse, but no response to clicks, >> or to keyboard gestures) until I

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:03:11 Donald Allen wrote: >> I have tried periodically to use FreeBSD -- a couple of the 7.x >> releases, 8.0 and now 8.1. I do my backups on Seagate SATA drives in >> US

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Hans Petter Selasky >> wrote: >> > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:03:11 Donald Allen wrote: >> >> I ha

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:15:15PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bernd Walter >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> On Thu,

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-24 Thread Donald Allen
A few more things on this issue: 1. I installed FreeBSD on another system, just on the off-chance that my problem might be caused by testing with an old machine (c. 2005). This machine is a relatively new HP desktop and it exhibits exactly the same symptoms w.r.t. the USB drives as I described ear

usb mouse issue

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Allen
I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft usb mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start X, everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart it (via startx), the mouse no longer works, but the laptop's trackpoint device does w

Re: usb mouse issue

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft usb > mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start X, > everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart it (via >

Re: usb mouse issue

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote: > > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft usb > > mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start X, > &g

Re: usb mouse issue

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > >> Donald Allen wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky >wrote: > > > >> On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote: > >> > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-10-04 Thread Donald Allen
ven that the drives work with other systems, if I'm going to use FreeBSD, I'd like to see this problem either explained or fixed. /Don On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > > A few more things on this i

Re: usb mouse issue

2010-10-08 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > >> >> Donald Allen wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky > >wrote: >> > >> >> On Sunday

Intermittent pauses copying from one usb drive to another

2011-02-05 Thread Donald Allen
I've discussed problems with FreeBSD and usb sata drives on this list in the past (as recently as last September), and have given up on FreeBSD as a result of the usb disk problems (I do my backups with usb drives) and other usb-related issues. But I've now replaced the usb enclosures I was using a

Re: Intermittent pauses copying from one usb drive to another

2011-02-05 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011 14:27:56 Donald Allen wrote: > > I've discussed problems with FreeBSD and usb sata drives on this list > > in the past (as recently as last September), and have given up on > > Free

Re: Intermittent pauses copying from one usb drive to another

2011-02-05 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011 16:18:56 Donald Allen wrote: > > Does whoever is responsible for CAM/SCSI > > know about this and do you know if there are plans to fix it? What is the > > point of "supporting&q