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Subject: Re: Suggestions for an external firewire/USB drive
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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.