Re: -CURRENT, EHCI, and the iPod

> On Monday 08 March 2004 21:11, Craig Boston wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure the Intel EHCI chip doesn't work in FreeBSD, at least it
> > doesn't for me (and I've seen postings suggesting that the same is true in
> > NetBSD as well).
>
> Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Yes, I can confirm this.
> As a matter of fact, plugin in my external USB2 harddrive even panics my box !
> I think ehci is way from a working state for now.

Actually it works pretty well for me on a Compaq N610C with a
Maxtor 200Gb One-Touch (USB2 and Firewire). And has since before Xmas on
5-current.  This is a <NEC uPD 720100 USB 2.0 controller>.

I have been using it to transfer a 150+Gb file and get transfer
rate of around 10Mbyte/s. Also have used as just a scratch disk for backups
and files including buildworlds were it was slightly faster than using the
laptop internal disk. I'd like to get a second disk and mirror them!

However, about once every couple of weeks it will lock up (always after
being idle for a long while) and can only power it off and if I want it
back I need to reboot machine.  I see messages from usb about wanting
to flip states (sorry laptop hard internal disk died last week and I dont
have the actual message.).  But it does not panic the laptop.
Actually disk appears to spin down if not in use and generally comes up ok
after a few seconds, so it looks like a random timing issue.

What does panic the laptop having the usb disk plugged in and powered up at
boot.  This is the most disappointing but, since the boot loader sees it as
a second disk and offers it as a boot device!

If I get some time (unlikely in near term) I'd write this up as a PR with
proper details.

your mileage may vary ;-)

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tonym