From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 29 17:24:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9221F106568F for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D28C8FC0A for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF8054959E1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:24:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4AC242DB.4090607@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:24:43 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4ABDFAE5.2090505@onetel.com> <20090928015625.GK29215@dan.emsphone.com> <20090928034452.GA1424@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20090928034452.GA1424@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: lacie external hard drive supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:24:45 -0000 Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: >>> Hi all >>> >>> Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton >>> eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? >>> >>> http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 >>> >>> Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported >>> under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? >> In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be >> supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array >> management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to >> acess the data though). > > The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them > painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be > removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. > > We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial > iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot > information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to > make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I > remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but > it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and > FreeBSD machines. > > I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition > and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me > to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to > boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing > partitions pretty painlessly as well. > > I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are > generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. > > Bill Thanks very much for replies guys, sounds like it is safe to buy Chris