> a few months ago I bought a Western Digital extern USB harddisk. It > worked with OpenBSD for the first x minutes, but stoped working with an > dmesg-error: Umass0 Phase Error, residue=0 > > reference to earlier post: > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-08/1215.html > > I think this might be caused by the SATA to USB device-part > (adapter/controller/host?) so I was thinking about buying a SATA to > USB adapter. Ofcourse I want to be sure it works.
A recent change may solve problems for machines that also had cardbus bridges on them. > I think most of you just would say; "it should work". However, it might > be usefull to make a dedicated webpage of not supported/problematic > hardware. I don't think we'll ever write such a page. You have to look it from the other side. Such a page will be a list of "avoid", and will hurt our users rather than helping them. Buy a bad device? Why not give a shot at fixing it. It's not hard to learn.
