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Date:      3 Feb 2006 20:58:44 -0000
From:      John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        petermatulis@yahoo.ca
Subject:   Re: any issues with usb hard drives?
Message-ID:  <20060203205844.50458.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060203201652.32281.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com>

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>I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with
>FreeBSD.  Anything I should be concerned about?

I've been using them for backup and they're great.  Support was flaky
in 5.3 but it's been very reliable in 5.4 and 6.0.

I would suggest using GEOM to label them so they have the same device
name in /dev regardless of what USB port they're plugged into.

R's,
John





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