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

From Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?
Date 2015-08-31 07:50 +0200
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On Aug 30, 2015, at 11:17 PM, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:

> 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?)

Yet another possible possibility:

* Is the disk backward compatible with USB2? If so, does it work with a USB2 card? Might get rid of some variables.

-- 
Glenn English

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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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