From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 14 12:40:56 2010 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 85BAB106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:40:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE368FC18 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:40:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4B4F10BA.2000308@ose.nl> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:40:26 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <20100111123219.GA2270@current.Sisis.de> <8983DD34-2BF4-4FC9-B96F-5108E10AE9C4@goldmark.org> <4B4C20D1.3060408@ose.nl> <20100114120108.GA3815@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20100114120108.GA3815@current.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk 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: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:40:56 -0000 =3E =3E=3E I use Freecom hard drive XS 1=2E5TB USB2=2E0 on our fallback servers= as =3E=3E back-up disks=2E =3E=3E These are always connected to the servers for over half a year now= =2E =3E=3E I have not had any problems with them and the price was ok=2E =3E=3E da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 =3E=3E da1=3A =3CFreecom Hard Drive XS 1=2E00=3E Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2= device =3E=3E da1=3A 40=2E000MB/s transfers =3E=3E da1=3A 1430799MB =282930277168 512 byte sectors=3A 255H 63S/T 182401= C=29 =3E=3E /dev/da1s1d on /usr/home/www/backup =28ufs=2C local=2C soft-updates= =29 =3E=3E This is on FreeBSD 7=2E2-RELEASE-p6 =3E=3E =20 =3E =3E I ordered exactly this device=2E =3E =3E Your /dev/da1s1d let me think that you have created more than one =3E partition=2E=2E=2E =3E =3E =09matthias =3E =20 It=27s only one partition=2E I created it with sysinstall=2E fb1=3A/ =23 fdisk /dev/da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are=3A cylinders=3D182401 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 =2816065 blks/cyl=29 Figures below won=27t work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are=3A cylinders=3D182401 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 =2816065 blks/cyl=29 Media sector size is 512 Warning=3A BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is=3A The data for partition 1 is=3A sysid 165 =280xa5=29=2C=28FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD=29 start 63=2C size 2930272002 =281430796 Meg=29=2C flag 80 =28active=29= beg=3A cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1=3B end=3A cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is=3A =3CUNUSED=3E The data for partition 3 is=3A =3CUNUSED=3E The data for partition 4 is=3A =3CUNUSED=3E fb1=3A/ =23 bsdlabel /dev/da1s1 =23 /dev/da1s1=3A 8 partitions=3A =23 size offset fstype =5Bfsize bsize bps/cpg=5D c=3A 2930272002 0 unused 0 0 =23 =22raw=22 p= art=2C don=27t edit d=3A 2930272002 0 4=2E2BSD 2048 16384 28552 DISCLAIMER=3A This e-mail is for the intended recipient=28s=29 only=2E Access=2C disclosure=2C copying=2C distribution or reliance on any of it by= anyone else is prohibited=2E If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then del= ete it from your system=2E