On Aug 30, 2015, at 11:17 PM, CaT <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:21:26PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? >>>> Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? >>>> Am I missing something important? >>> >>> Does 'dmesg' show that the drive is seen and a /dev device is allocated >>> to it when you plug it into the USB3 card? >> >> There is no /dev allocated to the disk drive when plugged into the USB3 >> board. > > Three possibilities IMO: > > * cable too dodgy for USB3 but not dodgy enough for USB2 to fail :) > * card is dodgy (do you know that it actually does work?) > * drivers are dodgy (can happen - is there a newer kernel you can try?)
Yet another possible possibility: * Is the disk backward compatible with USB2? If so, does it work with a USB2 card? Might get rid of some variables. -- Glenn English