From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 04:19:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4356716A4CF for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:19:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.finnovative.net (mail.finnovative.net [204.247.59.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BE743D2D for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:19:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linuxuser@finnovative.net) Received: from [192.168.1.49] ([192.168.55.1]) by mail.finnovative.net over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:19:19 -0800 Message-ID: <42180F6C.1010009@finnovative.net> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:17:48 -0800 From: Joaquin Menchaca User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2005 04:19:19.0719 (UTC) FILETIME=[591AB370:01C51703] Subject: USB and FireWire Drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:19:20 -0000 Hi, This might sound strange, but I like to use flash cards for archival back up (especially the CF format variety). I would like to hook this up via FireWire and/or USB2.0. I was curious in how well FreeBSD supports plug 'n play devices like this. Can I plug it in and get it to auto-magically mount. If not, is it easy to mount these through mount commands, or do I have to configure something more? - jm