From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 22:32:39 2008 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 0A17A16A41B for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (smtp-out.neti.ee [194.126.126.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4DE13C442 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:32:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (relay8.neti.ee [88.196.174.139]) by HOT-Bounce1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61057250A7 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:14:51 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at estpak.ee Received: from Relayhost2.neti.ee (Relayhost2 [88.196.174.142]) by MXR-8.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D25B13CEC5 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:14:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from originaal.kodu.lan (88-196-99-60-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [88.196.99.60]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9701F7D49 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:14:46 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <47AB82D6.70309@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:14:46 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: USB HDD recommendations for FreeBSD 6.3/amd64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:32:39 -0000 Hello! I've been using two identical WD MyBook 500 GB HDDs as a 'backup media' for almost a year. With FreeBSD 6.2 things worked fairly well. There was only one problem - after attaching the drive, it took 10-11 minutes for the drive to become available as da0. In my specific situation this problem was not too disturbing. With 6.3, however, things are much worse. I'm experiencing really bad freezes when the several-gigabytes-big backup images are being transferred to the USB HDD. I've described the details in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120321, so I won't repeat them all here. I'll just say again that as the problem happens with two identical drives and WD's diagnostics utility has verified one of them to be OK, I don't believe it to be hardware failure. Also, problems started immediately after upgrading to 6.3. So, my current guess is that there is something about these drives that just doesn't sit well with FreeBSD 6.3. As I really do need to make backups, I'm willing to try another brand of HDD. So I hope to hear what kind of USB HDDs are you successfully using with FreeBSD 6.3. Thanks in advance, -- Toomas Aas ... The speed of time is one second per second.