On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 20:27 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:12:55 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> "lsusb -t" will show you what ports things are plugged into. The
> backups might have been working but was it running at USB3 speeds or
> just USB2? The cable might be perfectly fine for USB2, but it sounds
> like the system thought it should be a USB3 device, but it wasn't working.
Maybe it is just USB drive weirdness. Each drive I have apparently
includes a hub, not just a direct drive connection (some sort
of nonsense related to the Windows encryption stuff I utterly
ignore). Usb 2 port 8 is apparently the hub, not the drive:
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/10p, 10000M
|__ Port 3: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M
|__ Port 5: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M
|__ Port 8: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M
|__ Port 1: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M
I swear the next time I get a new backup drive it is simply going
to be one of those devices you can plug a sata disk into to talk
over USB. Protect me from all the "helpful" features :-).
Good luck with that. I just returned one of those because Linux didn't
even recognise it when I plugged it in (nothing in the journal, nothing
in dmesg).
poc