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From: Marten Vijn <info@martenvijn.nl>
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Subject: Re: external usb disk
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On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:37 +0100, Matthieu Bollot wrote:
> Hi, I've got a 250GB ide disk, that I put in an external usb box.
> I've made 3 partitions under linux, ext2, all works fine.
> 
<snip>
> 
> btw, I also wasn't able to create slice/label under freebsd (that's why I've ext2ed it) 
> I don't remember the errors but somethings like read/write to block 0 failed was common.
> 
You might try the handbook

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html

kind regards,
Marten