Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Scherer
meaning the controller then needs different outlets for 3.0 and 2.0 cables, so I need to use 3.0 cable on the 3.0 one, but 2.0 cable on the other. sounds reasonable. thanks michael -- Michael Scherer Univ.klinik f. Psychiatrie email: michael.sche...@meduniwien.ac.at phone: +43 6991 941 22 54 -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht >>> wrote: here are 3 or now I think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB 3.0 is us

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > Seems this either a typo, or a contradiction: > "The USB 3.0 sockets are backward-compatible with older ... cables" > would mean I can use the old cables for 3.0, but then > > "but older USB cables are not forward-compatible with USB 3.0" >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Scherer
Seems this either a typo, or a contradiction: "The USB 3.0 sockets are backward-compatible with older ... cables" would mean I can use the old cables for 3.0, but then "but older USB cables are not forward-compatible with USB 3.0" says I can NOT use the old cables. I have no 3.0, but some day I pr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> here are 3 or now I >> think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB >> 3.0 is using > > XHCI > > Furthermore, USB 3.0 has 9-pin ports and cables (for type-A) versu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > here are 3 or now I > think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB > 3.0 is using XHCI Furthermore, USB 3.0 has 9-pin ports and cables (for type-A) versus the 4-pin of USB 1/2. The USB 3.0 sockets are backward-compati

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Frank Peters wrote: > On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:51:58 +0200 > Thomas Rösner wrote: > >> >> What you also need is sd (which creates the accordingly >> named /dev/sd? device). >> > > Since I use SATA exclusively, sd is built in to the kernel. > > As Paul Hartman has ind

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Frank Peters
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:51:58 +0200 Thomas Rösner wrote: > > What you also need is sd (which creates the accordingly > named /dev/sd? device). > Since I use SATA exclusively, sd is built in to the kernel. As Paul Hartman has indicated, all that should be necessary are the sg and usb-storage mo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 6 May 2012 14:29:20 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: ... ... > Using a Gentoo Live DVD to boot Linux, the drive was recognized > without any read errors. In this case fdisk could recognize the > drive. I then attempted to reformat the drive with an ext2 file > system but the format failed. .

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Am 06.05.2012 20:29, schrieb Frank Peters: Hello, I recently acquired a Seagate USB external HDD but could not get it to function on my Gentoo Linux. Back in the olden days to most common mistake with custom build kernels was not having SCSI disk support compiled in, but now that basical