Today I bought a i-Boy 2.5” HDD case to put a 2.5” HD into. It connects to a computer using a USB cable. I had a 20Gb disk on the shelf and together with that case it will be a perfect storage device for MP3s. Next time someone has a party, just grab that disk on the way there and here comes the music!
So I wanted it both to plug in to my PC or anyones else. So I started to format the HD on my PC. I chose NTFS since it’s quite large disk and most people have XP today, if they dont I guess they can’t hear my music. But I also wanted it to sit on my FreeBSD server so I could stream the music to my xBox for instance.
So this is what I did to make that work. Read the comments I made to see what I actually did.
So it didn’t work that well. Somehow the umass driver fails when initializing the disk. I get the following errors:
Mar 14 22:12:58 www /kernel: umass0: Genesys Logic USB Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.13, addr 2
Mar 14 22:12:58 www /kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
Mar 14 22:12:58 www /kernel: umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR
Mar 14 22:12:58 www /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR
Mar 14 22:12:58 www /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR
Mar 14 22:12:59 www /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
Mar 14 22:12:59 www /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
Mar 14 22:12:59 www /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
Mar 14 22:12:59 www /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
After some search on the net to try to fins a cure for my problem I discovered the FreeBSD USB home page with a lot of links that i’m investing further.
This text might come handy … http://www.unobvious.com/bsd/usb-harddrives.txt
I got it working! See the other blog entry about it!