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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:04:48 +0200
From:      "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewire/USB HDD question
Message-ID:  <3F463110.5000302@sitetronics.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030822144322.GE11682@spc.org>
References:  <200308220941.h7M9fm217933@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <3F45FA03.5020100@sitetronics.com> <20030822144322.GE11682@spc.org>

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I'd be willing to go out and buy some random USB HDD and help out with 
testing/developing the drivers-- I'd need a current list of what's 
currently (fully) supported to do this so I can find something that may 
not be. I'd probably go get any random 1.1/2.0 drive

--Devon

Bruce M Simpson wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:09:55PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
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>>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 
>>    
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>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.
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>It wasn't pretty.
>
>BMS
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