Re: Can't see USB disk device

From: Joe Mcguckin <joe_at_via.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 04:06:13 UTC
Thanks!

> On Mar 15, 2022, at 1:22 PM, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>>>>>> 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