Re: lacie external hard drive supported?
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to acess the data though). The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and FreeBSD machines. I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing partitions pretty painlessly as well. I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. Bill Thanks very much for replies guys, sounds like it is safe to buy Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lacie external hard drive supported?
In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to acess the data though). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lacie external hard drive supported?
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to acess the data though). The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and FreeBSD machines. I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing partitions pretty painlessly as well. I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of Misery. -- Winston Churchill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
lacie external hard drive supported?
Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
