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- ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Z370
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- i7 8700k
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- RX580
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I have a usb3 device, that intermittently disconnects and immediately reconnects(with the usual warning this device was not ejected properly blah blah blah). The only correlation I think, is that it *sometimes* happens on heavy I/O. More like massive amount of small file transfers than big sized ones. I'm trying to figure out if its a problem with the usb3 hard drive, or hackintosh. It doesn't happen all the time either, which makes troubleshooting it that more difficult. Power stability should not be an issue, runs on UPS.
This is the only usb3 device I possess.
I can test it against a current Macbook Air. But I would like the tests to be identical to eliminate the possibility that the device is defective or not.
I'm leaning to hackintosh as being the problem. The USB3 on my GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.0 - running EFI U1H) from what I can tell is 3rd party chipset. It was before intel made their own supported USB3 in its chipsets. Which may explain the occasional instability. Windows has specific drivers for it from Etron.
Stress test suggestions are welcome.
I'm running 10.9.4, but I've witnessed this behaviour through all the 10.9's, and I think 10.8's (the window I was running 10.8 before moving to 10.9 when I bought this hard drive, is so small, I can't say with certainty).
This is the only usb3 device I possess.
I can test it against a current Macbook Air. But I would like the tests to be identical to eliminate the possibility that the device is defective or not.
I'm leaning to hackintosh as being the problem. The USB3 on my GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.0 - running EFI U1H) from what I can tell is 3rd party chipset. It was before intel made their own supported USB3 in its chipsets. Which may explain the occasional instability. Windows has specific drivers for it from Etron.
Stress test suggestions are welcome.
I'm running 10.9.4, but I've witnessed this behaviour through all the 10.9's, and I think 10.8's (the window I was running 10.8 before moving to 10.9 when I bought this hard drive, is so small, I can't say with certainty).