Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-04-23 Thread Velcro Leaf
The following reply was made to PR usb/177895; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Velcro Leaf To: Hans Petter Selasky Cc: "freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't Date: Tue, 23 Apr

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-04-23 Thread Velcro Leaf
I am resending because my last message came out as a big wad of unbroken text.  I don't know why.  It looks normal in my outbox.  I apologize in advance if the same thing happens with this one, but it looks just fine on my screen now. Wish me luck! Leif > On 04/17/13 07:27, Leif Velcro wrote:

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-05-02 Thread Velcro Leaf
I've made a minor breakthrough.  After some mucking about with dd, I was able to get the system to acknowledge that the "bad" drive exists.  I was then able to reformat the drive.  By that I mean I performed the following operations: # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 # bsdlabel -Bw /dev/da0s1 # newfs /dev/

Re: usb/178771: [usbdevs] [patch] Western Digital My Passport HD

2013-05-28 Thread Velcro Leaf
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-usb > Responsible-Changed-By: linimon > Responsible-Changed-When: Sun May 19 08:22:01 UTC 2013 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > reclassify. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=178771 This looks like it might fix my issue: http://www.f

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-07-16 Thread Velcro Leaf
Got a new one of these with the same model number as the previous versions, but still different behavior this time. When you connect it, it says this: usbd_setup_device_desc: getting device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_STALLED ugen1.2: at usbus1 umass0: on usbus1 umass0:  SCSI over B

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-07-16 Thread Velcro Leaf
> The stalled messages has nothing to do with the mass storage part. It simply > indicates that some error happened during a USB control request.The USB stack > will re-try this particular message, so it is not directly dangerous. Well, the drive doesn't actually work on the other computer, so

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-07-18 Thread Velcro Leaf
I'm cc:'ing the list again.  (Hans and I had done some offline work I didn't want to spam the list with, since I wasn't sure if I was giving him the logs he was looking for.) > On 07/16/13 16:17, Velcro Leaf wrote: >>> See if you get a match on the ven

Re: usb/177895: similar 1TB Western Digital "My Passports" - some load, some don't

2013-07-31 Thread Velcro Leaf
I contacted Western Digital and (as expected) didn't get anywhere.  They claim they don't support OSs other than Windows and OS X, so once you ask questions beyond that, they are less than helpful. I did make some progress in terms of potentially determining the cause of the different behavior.

consistent, functional 1TB usb drive?

2014-02-17 Thread Velcro Leaf
I'm trying to get off tape drives and move to USB drives for backups, however circumstances are making this impossible. Does anyone have a suggestion for a known 1TB external USB drive, powered through the USB cable, that consistently works with FreeBSD, and has for some time? I've gone throug

Re: consistent, functional 1TB usb drive?

2014-03-04 Thread Velcro Leaf
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:13 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > Are any of the USB devices you have bought so-called "USB certified", carry a > USB logo and are registered by usb.org? Has anyone actually seen one of these mythical beasts in the wild? I'm having difficulty purchasing one.

Re: consistent, functional 1TB usb drive?

2014-03-04 Thread Velcro Leaf
On Tue, 3/4/14, Velcro Leaf wrote: > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:13 AM, Hans Petter Selasky > wrote: >> Are any of the USB devices you have bought so-called "USB certified", carry >> a USB logo and are registered by usb.org? > Any suggestions for buying one t

Re: consistent, functional 1TB usb drive?

2014-03-04 Thread Velcro Leaf
On Tue, 3/4/14, Erich Dollansky wrote: > just buy cheap USB cases and put any drive you want in. Will this result in a quirkless installation, or will I just be moving the problem farther down the cable? If all drives will behave themselves, then perhaps this truly is the best option. Seems l

Re: consistent, functional 1TB usb drive?

2014-06-26 Thread Velcro Leaf
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:54:34 -0800 (PST) Velcro Leaf >> wrote: >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a known 1TB external USB drive, powered >> through the USB cable, that consistently works with FreeBSD, and has for >> some time? > On Tue, 3/4/14, Erich D