From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 30 14:47:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B76A106564A for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1C38FC16 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.local ([IPv6:2a02:2b8:1:21:216:cbff:fe89:6ac0]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n5UEocLu067544 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:50:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4A4A2592.3010208@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:47:46 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: f-q References: <20090624121036.GA3661@holstein.holy.cow> <20090630134251.GA4283@holstein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20090630134251.GA4283@holstein.holy.cow> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm 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: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:51 -0000 On 30/6/09 14:42, parv@pair.com wrote: > In message <20090624121036.GA3661@holstein.holy.cow> on -mobile > list[0], I asked for suggestions for a firewire or eSATA card to be > put in Thinkpad T61 PCMCIA or EtherExpress slot, while most likely > running FreeBSD 7. > > After about 6 days getting no replies but still dwindling hard disk > space, where should I ask the question again: -hardware, -firewire, > -stable, here[1]? > > > The only one I have ever used was a cheapy one from deal extreme[0] This actually worked fine (minimal testing other than formatting and some file copies.) It was being picked up before the internal sata controller and reordering the drives which was a pain. I cant be sure if you would get one with the same chipset as me or anything though as its a noname brand from somewhere in china. Vince [0] http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.22074