Hi! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: > > We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by > > plugging a USB external drive in and then doing > > cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 > > > > This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1).
To which anubis answered: > Why not use removeable drive trays with straight pata drives? Few months ago I did some research on this and found that not every removable IDE drive bay supports hot-swapping - the ones that do are somewhat more expensive. I myself ended up using external FireWire drives, which have worked out quite well (and the speed is much better than USB with FreeBSD 4.9): # camcontrol devlist <Maxtor 5000DV v1.00.00 0000> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass1) -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you leave me, can i come too? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"