From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 28 03:44:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79173106566C for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@mi.celestial.com) Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com (dorsai-02.celestial.com [192.136.111.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4170F8FC0A for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F2120605A8 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at celestial.com Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorsai-02.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IPPR6v1KR+rs for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB3920605A4 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663C768EEA4A3; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id BWxyQmjPbHfG; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 4AB0B6849D1DD; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:44:52 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090928034452.GA1424@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4ABDFAE5.2090505@onetel.com> <20090928015625.GK29215@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090928015625.GK29215@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 OpenPKG/% (2009-01-05) Subject: Re: lacie external hard drive supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:44:53 -0000 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: >> Hi all >> >> Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton >> eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? >> >> http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 >> >> Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported >> under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? > >In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be >supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array >management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to >acess the data though). The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and FreeBSD machines. I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing partitions pretty painlessly as well. I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of Misery. -- Winston Churchill