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From: Mik Firestone <mik@racerx.homedns.org>
To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: Firewire/USB HDD question
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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