12.0-CURRENT VM image won't mount USB flash drive

Rodney W. Grimes

2018-01-25 18:41:53 UTC

?FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180118-r328126.vmdk.xz
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180125-r328383.vmdk.xz
when a USB flash drive is present via the attached USB 3.0 controller
the console hangs for 10-12 minutes during boot and then emits the
error messages seen in the attachment.
The UFS filesystem on the USB flash drive cannot be mounted.
If the USB flash drive is connected via the attached USB 2.0
controller, everything is good.
This problem is not manifested in any 10.4-STABLE or 11.1-STABLE VM
images.
The host system is CentOS EL7 7.1708.
VirtualBox version is 5.2.6.
The USB 3.0 controller uses a VIA chipset.
System is for test purposes only, so it is easy to try anything that
might help resolve this problem.

I think I hit this the other night, and just chocked it off to
some problem on my set up. I plugged a USB stick into a build
box to splat a Chromebook-Snow/arm image on and nota, the usb
stick did not show up.

I just unplugged it and plugged it into another socket without
looking and boom, it showed up. Now that I go look at where
I was plugging this in the first connector was a USB 3.0, the
second was a USB 2.0.

The machine is running FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180118-r328126

Thanks.

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Rod Grimes ***@freebsd.org