Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-10-04 Thread Donald Allen
I've been away for awhile and could not work on this issue. I just looked at the OpenBSD 4.7 sources, and there is no entry in sys/devs/usbdev.h for a vendor with id 0x04fc, nor is there a product id 0x0c15. Considering this and looking at their usb_quirks.c and umass_quirks.c, I don't think

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

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-24 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: 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

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 hsela...@c2i.net 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 USB shoeboxes with ext2

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Bernd Walter
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 hsela...@c2i.net 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

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 ti...@cicely7.cicely.de 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 hsela...@c2i.net wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:03:11 Donald Allen wrote: I have tried

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:15:15PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de 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 hsela...@c2i.net wrote: On

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 ti...@cicely7.cicely.de 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 ti...@cicely7.cicely.de wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-23 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:01:38PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de 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 ti...@cicely7.cicely.de wrote: On Thu,

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

Re: USB drives still don't work correctly

2010-09-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com 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 remove the connector. Can you try this without running X (or just switch to

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 sa...@saper.info wrote: Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com 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 remove