[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

[Reginald Beardsley]

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 <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

> From: Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> 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
> > 
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