Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:48:53 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: petermatulis@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: any issues with usb hard drives? Message-ID: <20060215144853.41629.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060203205844.50458.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
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--- John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > >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. Any hints on how to get started? I am reading the GEOM section in the manual and it focuses on setting up RAID. -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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