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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:24:59 -0400
From:      Mik Firestone <mik@racerx.homedns.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewire/USB HDD question
Message-ID:  <20030822192459.GA6525@racerx.homedns.org>
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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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Bruce
M Simpson wrote:
> 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

I would be willing, depending on the price, to purchase the required
hardware.  If somebody can email me privately with the specifics, I will
see what I can do.

Mik



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