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=1002
I would certainly be checking the positions on the ribbon. I was caught
by this myself - should have known better, doh! For ATA-100+ cables, the
black connector is master and the grey is slave. Not an issue for older
and slower ATA modes, but a gotcha for ATA-100+.
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