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Subject: Re: 8.1-release Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition u.s.b. 2.0
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On 28 January 2011 23:15,  <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> wrote:
>=A0I am trying to discover the list of supported devices for 8.1-release,
> which I know exists, but I do not seem to be able to find.

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html

> In particular, does this version of FreeBSD support a Western Digital
> My Book Mirror Edition u.s.b. 2.0 external hard drive?

I doubt an exhaustive list of USB wazzits, frobdars, & dimsum will
ever be written even for Winders or Linus, let alone FBSD.
Seeing as how the RAID controller, whether hard or soft, is going to be
behind a USB adapter, I doubt it's going to be visible as anything but
a pass(4)  & a da(4), though I doubt any bundled "RAID management
software" for that device does much more than check for grotty platters
& forcibly sync the drives (even to their detriment) if even that.
Also, does it have a battery to run on if it needs to finish syncing
after it's been unplugged?

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