I concluded it's a size related problem for USB disk. I've never had problems w/ USB disks 1 TB and smaller. (at least that weren't self inflicted ;-)
I bought a 4 disk eSATA box to get around this and also to allow using some drives I have sitting around. Naturally, I too ran into the port multiplexer problem :-( --- On Wed, 1/18/12, Daniel Kjar <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Daniel Kjar <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 1:38 PM > I have a 4 disk external box with > both sata2 and usb. When attached by usb the whole > thing dropped after a little while, sata2 works perfectly > fine (except my sata card will only see one disk ). So > I know it is not the drive but the USB that causes the > drop. this is with a 2 tb seagate > > > On 01/18/12 01:56 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > > FWIW I've been using a 320 GB Maxtor USB disk to > sneaker net data from OI to Solaris 10 for 5-6 months w/o > any problems. It works fine connected for long > periods to either system. If the drive goes to sleep > it takes a moment to get a response, but no actual > problems. > > > > I did run into problems on 10 w/ a 1.5 TB Seagate USB > drive which the system simply refused to recognize even > existed. I wound up using it to archive a Windows > system, so I've never tried it w/ OI. > > > > Reg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > -- Dr. Daniel Kjar > Assistant Professor of Biology > Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Elmira College > 1 Park Place > Elmira, NY 14901 > 607-735-1826 > http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar > > "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old > ladies" > -E. O. Wilson > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
