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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:28:08 +0200
From: Paul Sommerhein <pms-freebsd@sommerhein.com>
To: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for an external firewire/USB drive
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Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg.me.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Paul Sommerhein wrote:
> >
> > I am looking for an external firewire/USB drive >= 200 GB to go with
> > FreeBSD-4.8.
> >
> > I was looking at Maxtor 5000xt, but it appears it causes kernel panics
> > when connected to the USB port as reported in PR kern/48849.  Does
> > anyone know if that drive will work through the firewire port?
> 
> It works fine through firewire on any recent (since May 2003) FreeBSD.
> The earlier Maxtor drives have been working well for much longer: this
> model introduces a second unit instance for the button on the front
> panel, which required a fix to the driver.
> 
> Note that these Maxtor drives are, like all the others available, just
> a normal IDE drive in a box with an IDE<->Firewire interface.

Thanks!

After having read mixed user reviews
(http://reviews.designtechnica.com/user_reviews63.html) of the Maxtor
5000XT / 5000DV, I have gotten a little bit uneasy of buying drives from
Maxtor.  But if all other external drives available also use standard
IDE drives, designed for a stationary PC, I guess they also will suffer
from the same robustness problems described.

Hmmm... I guess I am a little bit confused about what to buy here as I
need a large disk which should be robust enough for being transported
around.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for what to buy?  Any pointers
appreciated.

Best regards,
Paul