Hmmm, USB and  Mac Mini - Not BFFs

I had a wee problem connecting a StarTech USB enclosure ( containing a 512 GB SSD drive ) to my Mac Mini this evening.

The drive never showed up in Finder, in Terminal ( under /Volumes ) or in Disk Utility.

Eventually, the enclosed would throw up a connection error.

In the logs ( sudo dmesg ) I saw: -

...
1642046.822691 EzLockDown@14900000: AppleUSBDevice::waitForInterfacesGated: timeout waiting for _interfacesMatched
1642046.822777 EzLockDown@14900000: AppleUSBDevice::waitForInterfacesGated: timeout waiting for _interfacesMatched
vmioplug: Warning: com_vmware_kext_UsbPortArbiter_14_1_4[fffffffffc5c018f]::updateDeviceByPort(14900000) resetDevice() failed: e00002bc
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 0000000000014905 0x4c5 0x2028 0x1, 3
1642116.059756 EzLockDown@14900000: AppleUSBDevice::waitForInterfacesGated: timeout waiting for _interfacesMatched
1642116.060507 EzLockDown@14900000: AppleUSBDevice::waitForInterfacesGated: timeout waiting for _interfacesMatched
vmioplug: Warning: com_vmware_kext_UsbPortArbiter_14_1_4[fffffffffc5c018f]::updateDeviceByPort(14900000) resetDevice() failed: e00002bc
…

I tried various things, including suspending a running VM and shutting down VMware Fusion 8, but to no avail.

In the end, I moved the drive from one USB port to another.

( the arrow indicates the from, the connected USB cable indicates the to )

Strange but true ;-)