I was also contacted, and overnighted a drive. After some address goof-ups on my end, I now have a new drive, and I’ve sent the old drive back.
Now to test it out. Opening the seal, hooking up one end of a USB3 cable to my main Linux box, starting the log monitor…
tygris@sandra ~ $ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 6: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-3/3-3.1"
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 6 was not an MTP device
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=07ba
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: Product: My Passport 07BA
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb 3-3.1: SerialNumber: (REDACTED)
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: usb-storage 3-3.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Oct 8 21:52:43 sandra kernel: scsi host11: usb-storage 3-3.1:1.0
Oct 8 21:52:44 sandra kernel: scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 07BA 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Oct 8 21:52:44 sandra kernel: scsi 11:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Oct 8 21:52:44 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Spinning up disk...
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: ......ready
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 8 21:52:50 sandra kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
Yep, that’s more like it. Now to mask the over-bright white light and simplify my Kodi setup (aka BBF Mobile Broadcast Unit). Where did I put those cases I gutted…
