From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 05:15:02 2004 Return-Path: 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 B198716A4E1 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 05:15:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from torntsims03.hsia.fairmont.com (smtp.hsia.fairmont.com [142.131.15.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC5243D39 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 05:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from grokking.org (unverified [207.81.133.169]) by torntsims03.hsia.fairmont.com ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:06:43 -0500 Message-ID: <406C15CD.6060803@grokking.org> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:14:53 -0500 From: Ed Budd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Fahey References: <406BBF1C.3030205@optusnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <406BBF1C.3030205@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portable mass-storage support... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:15:02 -0000 Nick Fahey wrote: >I'm looking to build a 'tapeless' backup system using a FreeBSD backup >staging server running both fixed and portable hard drives. The portable >drive I fancy is the LaCie 'Pocket Drive' with both USB2 and Firewire >interfaces. See: > >http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?id=10023 > >The hardware compatibility guide does not mention these products. The >results of various google searches on the subject of USB mass storage >support in FreeBSD suggest that this area is still generally not well >supported. Has anyone had any experience with these particular drives >(or any other portable mass-storage solutions) under FreeBSD 4.9 or >5.2.x? I would love to wave goodbye to tapes forever! Thanks in advance >for your responses and suggestions. > >Nick >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Nick: I've used the Lacie USB 20G model with FBSD 5.1 REL and it worked fine once I enabled the appropriate kernel config sections concerning USB and made certain I had the correct filesystem support. I believe it only works at USB 1.0 speeds though so you won't get as fast of throughput as those devices can do. I seem to recall you just mount it as /dev/da0 or something similar. Try Google as I believe I found all the info. I needed to do this from reading list archives. Cheers, EB