Re: Can't see USB disk device

Reply: Joe Mcguckin : "Re: Can't see USB disk device"
In reply to: joe mcguckin : "Can't see USB disk device"
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From: Martin Simmons <martin_at_lispworks.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:11:03 UTC

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:55:26 -0700, joe mcguckin said:
> 
> 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?

You could try setting some debugging sysctls to 1 to see if that gives any
more info.  See the list:

sysctl -a hw.usb | grep debug

__Martin