Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:14:53 -0500 From: Ed Budd <ebudd@grokking.org> To: Nick Fahey <nickfahey@optusnet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portable mass-storage support... Message-ID: <406C15CD.6060803@grokking.org> In-Reply-To: <406BBF1C.3030205@optusnet.com.au> References: <406BBF1C.3030205@optusnet.com.au>
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Nick Fahey wrote: >I'm looking to build a 'tapeless' backup system using a FreeBSD backup >staging server running both fixed and portable hard drives. The portable >drive I fancy is the LaCie 'Pocket Drive' with both USB2 and Firewire >interfaces. See: > >http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?id=10023 > >The hardware compatibility guide does not mention these products. The >results of various google searches on the subject of USB mass storage >support in FreeBSD suggest that this area is still generally not well >supported. Has anyone had any experience with these particular drives >(or any other portable mass-storage solutions) under FreeBSD 4.9 or >5.2.x? I would love to wave goodbye to tapes forever! Thanks in advance >for your responses and suggestions. > >Nick >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Nick: I've used the Lacie USB 20G model with FBSD 5.1 REL and it worked fine once I enabled the appropriate kernel config sections concerning USB and made certain I had the correct filesystem support. I believe it only works at USB 1.0 speeds though so you won't get as fast of throughput as those devices can do. I seem to recall you just mount it as /dev/da0 or something similar. Try Google as I believe I found all the info. I needed to do this from reading list archives. Cheers, EB
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