Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Glenn English wrote: > 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. Yes, that’s the first thing I tried. The disk (and all the USB2 and USB3 thumb drives I’ve tried as well) work just fine with a USB2 card — but at USB2 speeds. Aren’t computers fun!? Rick
Can someone recommend a working USB3 PCI or PCIe card? [Was Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?]
On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:17 PM, CaT wrote: > Three possibilities IMO: > > 1) cable too dodgy for USB3 but not dodgy enough for USB2 to fail :) > 2) card is dodgy (do you know that it actually does work?) > 3) drivers are dodgy (can happen - is there a newer kernel you can try?) Since I get the same symptoms with a WD external disk (with manufacturer supplied USB3 cable), a USB3 FLASH thumb-drive (no cable) and a USB2 FLASH thumb-drive (again, no cable), I’m going with either #2 or #3 here. To eliminate #2, I guess I’ll need a different USB3 interface card. Can someone recommend a good one? This machine has free PCI-X and PCIe slots that I could use. PCI-X slots are (according to wikipedia) compatible with PCI cards. The PCIe slot is “x1”. To investigate #3, I’ve started a different thread on the subject of “What USB3 chipsets are supported by the Jessie kernels?” Thanks! Rick
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Aug 30, 2015, at 11:17 PM, CaT wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT 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
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT 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?) -- "A search of his car uncovered pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier." - http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/indeed/story-e6frev20-118083480
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On 08/30/15 21:34, Rick Thomas wrote: I’ll plug in a disk and test it next chance I get, if you think it will help. Plugging the disk in after reboot shows nothing happening with the USB3 card. Plugging it into the USB2 card gets the expected [ 372.956020] usb 8-3: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci [ 373.097430] usb 8-3: New USB device found, idVendor=05dc, idProduct=a838 [ 373.097434] usb 8-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 373.097437] usb 8-3: Product: USB Flash Drive [ 373.097439] usb 8-3: Manufacturer: Lexar [ 373.097442] usb 8-3: SerialNumber: AALBOCEKDL6LQK8A [ 373.129075] usb-storage 8-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 373.129229] scsi host5: usb-storage 8-3:1.0 [ 373.129364] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 373.143513] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 374.434275] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access LexarUSB Flash Drive 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 374.434685] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [ 374.436135] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 62517248 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB) [ 374.436998] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 374.437002] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 374.437878] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 374.453902] sdc: sdc1 sdc2 [ 374.458001] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On 08/30/15 21:30, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, August 30, 2015 11:08 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:35 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Have you installed "gnome-disk-utility"? Why do you ask? When working with external drives, I constantly use gnome-disk-utility to mount and unmount, and generally to mount partitions of external drives (including USB sticks) to see what I have stored there. To me it is a basic tool. But it was not installed by default in my Debian Jessie installation; I had to install it. RLH Thanks for the pointer. I used to use "palimpsest" for this kind of thing when I wanted a GUI disk manager, but I went away in Jessie. This may be a suitable substitute. Unfortunately, it doesn't see the disk either when plugged into the USB3 card. Rick
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT 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. Typing “dmesg | less” and looking for ‘usb’ shows the following > [1.022294] xhci_hcd :08:00.0: hcc params 0x014051c7 hci version 0x100 > quirks 0x0010 > [1.023891] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 > [1.023895] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, > SerialNumber=1 > [1.023898] usb usb2: Product: xHCI Host Controller > [1.023900] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 xhci-hcd > [1.023903] usb usb2: SerialNumber: :08:00.0 > [1.024123] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > [1.024141] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected > [1.024370] xhci_hcd :08:00.0: xHCI Host Controller > [1.024376] xhci_hcd :08:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus > number 7 > [1.025847] usb usb7: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003 > [1.025850] usb usb7: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, > SerialNumber=1 > [1.025853] usb usb7: Product: xHCI Host Controller > [1.025855] usb usb7: Manufacturer: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 xhci-hcd > [1.025858] usb usb7: SerialNumber: :08:00.0 > [1.026035] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found > [1.026053] hub 7-0:1.0: 4 ports detected This appears to be happening during a reboot. There was no disk plugged into it at the time. I’ll plug in a disk and test it next chance I get, if you think it will help. > >>> rbthomas@monk:~$ lspci | grep -i usb > > try 'lspci -v | less' and find your card in there. See if there's a > driver allocated to it. I get the following > 08:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host > Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) > Subsystem: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24 > Memory at fd9fe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked- > Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd It appears to have a the xhci_hcd driver. Does that help? Rick
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Sun, August 30, 2015 11:08 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:35 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> Have you installed "gnome-disk-utility"? > Why do you ask? When working with external drives, I constantly use gnome-disk-utility to mount and unmount, and generally to mount partitions of external drives (including USB sticks) to see what I have stored there. To me it is a basic tool. But it was not installed by default in my Debian Jessie installation; I had to install it. RLH
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
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? > >rbthomas@monk:~$ lspci | grep -i usb try 'lspci -v | less' and find your card in there. See if there's a driver allocated to it. -- "A search of his car uncovered pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier." - http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/indeed/story-e6frev20-118083480
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:35 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2015 10:21 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I recently added a USB3 PCI card to my Dell Poweredge 1430 server box. > ... >> Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? >> Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? >> Am I missing something important? > > Have you installed "gnome-disk-utility"? > > RLH That package is installed, though it was installed automatically, not manually. Why do you ask? Rick
Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
On Sun, August 30, 2015 10:21 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > I recently added a USB3 PCI card to my Dell Poweredge 1430 server box. ... > Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? > Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? > Am I missing something important? Have you installed "gnome-disk-utility"? RLH