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Subject: Re: USB drives?
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> Hi, I'm thinking of getting a couple USB drives to use in
> backing up my 6.2-RELEASE-p4 system.  Any suggestions or
> warnings on brands of USB hard drives?

If you go the external box route, be sure to get one with
reasonable cooling.

I have a JM20337 which works fine with FreeBSD 6.2,
except for:

I haven't found a way to set the mode of a USB disk's
write cache.  PR usb/113977