From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 08:47:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D85E16A4E0 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.7.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5359343D49 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:47:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from arwen.nagual.nl (arwen.nagual.nl [192.168.11.29]) by nagual.nl with esmtp; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:47:39 +0200 id 0003980A.44DAF2AB.0000609E Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:47:39 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20060810104739.4222d4c6.dick@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <44DA2758.5000106@ywave.com> References: <20060808145245.GA7848@lothlorien.nagual.nl> <44DA2758.5000106@ywave.com> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ext usb2 drive and fbsd6 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, 10 Aug 2006 08:47:41 -0000 On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:20:08 -0700 Micah wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Maybe I should not ask this here but I take my chances. I love fbsd > > but it /is/ pickier on some hardware than windows and I don't want > > to use that software, so.. > > > > I'm planning an external hardrive. NAS (network attached storage) > > drive are very expensive. So I will buy an usb2 drive, I think. > > > > As always, money's short ;-) > > > > Do you have suggestions on *good* working and not to expensive usb2 > > harddisks for FreeBSD-6.1? > > > > They should be reliable and easy to mount on my server. > > I have a Western Digital "Essential" USB hard drive that I use for > backup purposes on my 6.1 system. > http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=182 > Haven't had any problems yet. And how about slicing or newfs'n such a drive. Can it be handled as a normal internal drive or can it only be used as an extra space and do I have to build it in to make two or more partitions for example? -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ The Power to Serve