Re: 2016-10-01-netbsd-raspi-earmv6hf.img (Re: Raspberry Pi update please.)

[Alan Corey <alan01346%gmail.com@localhost>]

Unmounting a drive maybe also turns off the USB driver to it in a tidy
way.  It seems a disadvantage of having something hot pluggable
though.

I remember not too long ago (in OpenBSD probably) you had to
specifically enable wsmouse outside of X.  Yes, it's still there in
rc.conf:
# For enabling console mouse support (i386 alpha amd64)
wsmoused_flags=NO       # for ps/2 or usb mice: "", serial: "-p /dev/cua00"

I care more about the babble of disconnect and reconnect messages at
the console than anything else.  And ctrl-alt-Fn to switch to a
different tty/virtual terminal didn't seem to work so you couldn't get
away from them that way.  If you're editing a file the messages don't
really end up in the file but it looks like they do, and if you're
trying to be careful about your indentation it'll probably screw you
up.

On 10/4/16, Christian Baer <christian.baer%uni-dortmund.de@localhost> wrote:
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> On 10/03/16 23:46, Paul Goyette wrote:
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>> I use a USB-attached hard-drive for my periodic "off-line" backups,
>> and have never had any problems with the device
>> connecting/disconnecting. Also, my keyboard does not d/c either,
>> and on the rare occassion when I use a flash drive, it remains
>> connected, too.
>>
>> So I probably wouldn't worry about it.  This problem seems to be
>> only related to mice.
>
> I second that!
>
> Although the problem I had with the USB-HD was really ball-busting,
> the drive actually never disconnected by itself - and neither did the
> keyboard. I was merely trying to point out that USB isn't flawless and
> the disconnecting mice aren't the only problem that USB has.
>
> Just to clarify this:
> The USB-hub crashed when I disconnected an external drive (didn't make
> a diff whether I powered it down or just pulled the plug). The same
> thing happened, when I put the drive in a dock. I mean one of these
> things:
>
> http://www.buycoms.com/Article/6822/ORICO_HARD_DRIVE_DOCK_6648_Series_66
> 48SUSJ3-02.jpg
>
> I tried two different models, one pretty cheap, one more expensive.
> With both I could also crash the USB-hub by pulling the drive out of
> the dock (even though this was explicitly permitted according to the
> dock's manual). Pulling the plug or powering the dock down still
> "worked" of course.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
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