Re: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or test my USB receptacles? USB 3.0 connectors have a somewhat different appearance than USB 2.0 or 1.1 connectors. I knew which were which from

Re: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:59:43PM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or test my USB receptacles? The plastic bits inside a USB 3 connector are usually

Fwd: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-03 Thread Henry Olyer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM Subject: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x

Re: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from

Re: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-03 Thread Henry Olyer
Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or test my USB receptacles? On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.comwrote: Has anyone gotten one to work?

the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential

2012-02-02 Thread Henry Olyer
Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from other