From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 05:45:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B3B16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:45:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from stimpy.forestinformatics.com (cvo-cr1-200-239.peak.org [69.59.200.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C8F43D45 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:45:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from www.forestinformatics.com (localhost.forestinformatics.com [127.0.0.1]) by stimpy.forestinformatics.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id j8D5jcMc085474 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from 12.154.211.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user hamannj) by www.forestinformatics.com with HTTP; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52793.12.154.211.2.1126590338.squirrel@www.forestinformatics.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:45:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on stimpy.forestinformatics.com Subject: usb advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:45:44 -0000 FreeBSD-ers, I'm putting together a new amd64 system and would like to get some feedback on using USB for devices. I have a machine with six USB ports (two on the front) and I would like to use them much as I would on a windows machine. The machine will sit (mostly) as a headless server and only rarely will I need to connect directly to the machine (mostly I will connect using SSH). When I do connect directly, I would love to be able to simply plug in a mouse and keyboard into the two ports on the front of the machine (automount?) and then yank them out when I'm done with my chores. Is this even possible? More importantly, I would like to utilize a USB hard drive connection (maybe one of those hard drive cases for laptops) for creating a nightly backup of the data on my hard drive. I could store much more data than either tape drive of DVD drive and could rotate a couple of disks for additional security. Can FreeBSD handle this or would I seimply need to install the addtional hard drive within the machine itself and use it as a backup? This isn't really an option since the backup would need to go off site (vault storage). I get the feeling that USB support on FreeBSD isn't grand and I'm working with FreeBSD 6.0BETA4 right now and when I tried to automount a USB flash drive, the machine rebooted when I pulled the drive out of the port. Comments? Jeff. -- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 phone 541-754-1428 fax 541-752-0288 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com