Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:40:29 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <20020510154029.A29446@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3CDC4611.DD2FA219@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:13:37PM -0700 References: <20020510150347.K40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <3CDC4611.DD2FA219@mindspring.com>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:13:37PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Chip Morton wrote: > > > >that's not a bad solution, untill you have to deal with moving it be= tween > > > >hardware. > > > > > > For an extra hundred dollars, you can even get some external/USB > > > 2.0/IEEE-1394 hard drives with decent capacities. > >=20 > > under USB 2.0 that'd work, but you still have the problems of moving it > > between machines and architectures, i think. >=20 > It really, really sucks that FreeBSD doesn't have an architecturally > (read "byte/word order") neutral local media FS that is not read-only, > like NetBSD does. phk has talked about creating a ufs2.5 driver which would be ufs2 + byte order magic. That would definatly be nice. GEOM is also apparently supposed to be able to handle disk labels and partition tables. > > does FreeBSD already support USB 2.0? >=20 > Dunno. Probably -current does. No, but that's a major goal of the current sync with NetBSD. It's currently a race between our new firewire comitter and Joe's USB work. Fortunatly, many driver enclosures support both. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83ExcXY6L6fI4GtQRAjaZAKDR1749ttInJ27ChzBM15moZLTmYwCfUaji 2yw/aoetKvhQRp6W7nz1Dd4= =3KJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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