Can't see USB disk device

From: joe mcguckin <joe_at_via.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:55:26 UTC 
FreeeBSD 12.3-Release

I’m trying to mount a 3.5” SATA drive mounted in an external enclosure with a USB interface,  formatted with NTFS. When I plug in the USB disk, I do not see the device. All I see from the log is:

    ugen7.2: <CalDigit AVPro2 Hub> at usbus7

I assume the CALDIGIT enclosure has a hub chip to accomodate all the different interfaces (USBA, USBC, mini USB).

Although FreeBSD won’t mount the disk automatically (I’ll be using the NTFS fuse fs for that), I’d expect to see a log message where FreeBSD sees the SATA/USB drive.

Shouldn't a hub be transparent and the mass storage USB device be enumerated?

I should mention that this works flawlessly on the Mac…

Thanks,

Joe

Joe McGuckin
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