From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 20:41:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35FC16A473 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE3413C459 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E96E33C73; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "satchel.alerce.com", Issuer "alerce.com" (verified OK)) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C142833C71; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:24:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id D6974195FE2; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:23:53 -0800 (PST) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18235.22873.795181.737806@almost.alerce.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:23:53 -0800 To: David Kelly In-Reply-To: <20071114192226.GA10573@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <473B39EB.3000702@polands.org> <20071114192226.GA10573@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Doug Poland , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:41:02 -0000 David Kelly writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to > > run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but > > I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. > > > > Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? > > I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with > Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. > > There were some Western Digital Firewire externals on the market but > many Mac users had problems. With Apple as one of Firewire's parents its > pretty sad if a Firewire product doesn't work with a Mac. Are you running Mac OS X on your mac, or FreeBSD? I've had (until last week) an 8-core mac pro that was dual booting FreeBSD RELENG_6 and Mac OS X. FreeBSD would lock up the machine whenever I plugged a firewire disk drive into it (I tried 4 different disk drives). I'd see a couple of messages via syslog and boom. I didn't have time to debug it and now no longer have the machine, so this is useless as a bug report, but I'm curious what your experience has been. I'm planning to buy myself a mac pro in the near future (as soon as they announce the penryn based models) and am planning to dual boot RELENG_7 on it. If it's still having firewire problems, I'll follow up with a proper bug report. g.