From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 21:41:50 2005 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 48DA716A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jade.spiritone.com (jade.aracnet.com [216.99.193.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF80743D46 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henryt@aracnet.com) Received: from [216.99.201.233] (216-99-201-233.dial.spiritone.com [216.99.201.233]) (authenticated bits=0) by jade.spiritone.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j2VLfcOp020631; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:46 -0800 Message-ID: <424C6E97.6050403@aracnet.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:43 -0800 From: henry tieman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050318 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "francesco ( trini )" References: <424BD0AF.8090000@yahoo.it> In-Reply-To: <424BD0AF.8090000@yahoo.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I wanna buy a portable HD via USB 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: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:41:50 -0000 francesco ( trini ) wrote: > Hello , i want know if can i buy a portable HD to use with my Toshiba > notebook with USB connection. There is a possibility that a HD work > with USB connection on my Freebsd-5.4-prerelease ? > Thanks > I have three different USB hard drives. They have all worked on every operating system I have tried - XP, Fedora core 2, FreeBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 5.3. I do not think you will have an issue if you purchase a recent model USB hard disk enclosure. FreeBSD was the hardest to get it working on, but I do have them working with FreeBSD. I built the FBSD 4 kernel with umass and ehci(high speed USB). Henry -- Henry Tieman Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.