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Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

From CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
Date 2015-08-31 07:20 +0200
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> 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?)

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Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 05:30 +0200
  Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-31 05:40 +0200
    Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 06:10 +0200
      Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-31 06:40 +0200
        Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 06:50 +0200
  Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? CaT <cat@zip.com.au> - 2015-08-31 06:20 +0200
    Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 06:40 +0200
      Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 07:00 +0200
      Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? CaT <cat@zip.com.au> - 2015-08-31 07:20 +0200
        Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-08-31 07:50 +0200
          Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 09:10 +0200
        Can someone recommend a working USB3 PCI or PCIe card?  [Was Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 09:00 +0200

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