From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 07:46:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBE316A4BF for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hysteria.spc.org (hysteria.spc.org [195.206.69.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F50943FE0 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@hysteria.spc.org) Received: (qmail 20705 invoked by uid 5013); 22 Aug 2003 14:43:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:43:22 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: "Devon H. O'Dell" Message-ID: <20030822144322.GE11682@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , "Devon H. O'Dell" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <200308220941.h7M9fm217933@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <3F45FA03.5020100@sitetronics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F45FA03.5020100@sitetronics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: SPC cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewire/USB HDD question X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:46:25 -0000 On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:09:55PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > is not much in the way of storage devices -- what USB HDDs are supported > (or is this just standard?). Any help in the way of what I should get Some enclosures use USB-ATA bridge chips. sos has expressed an interest in supporting these in ATAng but someone needs to get the hardware to him to kickstart the process. This work is only happening in CURRENT and might find its way into 5.2. I had an attempt at hacking up umass to do it last year. It wasn't pretty. BMS