[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

[Ray Arachelian]

On 01/18/2012 12:51 PM, Ron Parker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
>>
>> Funny you should ask, I'm seeing the same kinds of behavior after
>> upgrading to 151 with an 8 slot USB 3 array.  Are we sure it's the
>> hardware and not something in the USB driver?
> My host is USB 2 only. So at the very least I don't think its USB-3
> driver specific. Also I am seeing the same on Mac OS X Lion which may
> be related or not. I do recall Seagate previously having some
> suspend-wake-up logic that was peculiar to their Windows driver. On
> Linux the work around was to not disable the drive going to sleep
> until the "proper" quirks were entered into the Linux driver. In the
> LKML world "quirks" is a technical term/term of art.
>
> __

To clarify the USB3 enclosure connects to an oi151 host that only has
USB 2.0 ports.  I bought a 3.0 capable enclosure in anticipation of
future upgrades.  That said, does anyone know of a USB 3.0 controller
that is known to work with oi151? :)