Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:24:43 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lacie external hard drive supported? Message-ID: <4AC242DB.4090607@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20090928034452.GA1424@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <4ABDFAE5.2090505@onetel.com> <20090928015625.GK29215@dan.emsphone.com> <20090928034452.GA1424@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: >>> Hi all >>> >>> Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton >>> eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? >>> >>> http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 >>> >>> Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported >>> under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? >> In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be >> supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array >> management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to >> acess the data though). > > The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them > painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be > removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. > > We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial > iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot > information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to > make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I > remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but > it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and > FreeBSD machines. > > I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition > and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me > to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to > boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing > partitions pretty painlessly as well. > > I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are > generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. > > Bill Thanks very much for replies guys, sounds like it is safe to buy Chris
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