Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:23:53PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > David Kelly writes: > > > > I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with > > Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. > > Are you running Mac OS X on your mac, or FreeBSD? I see little point in running FreeBSD on my Mac. I have other boxes which run FreeBSD perfectly fine so it would be a waste of a perfectly good MacOS X. A Dell with FreeBSD is an excellent coprocessor for a Mac. Many FreeBSD things run perfectly fine on MacOS. I'd like avr-gcc to run as well on Mac as on FreeBSD, but its only svn and Terminal.app away from my Mac. And not currently worth my effort to properly build a current version on the Mac. I rather like editing in BBedit on the Mac. I think the free TextWrangler would be just as good for my use but don't remember if integrated CVS and SVN are included. Downloaded, installed, checked, nope. No CVS/SVN from within TextWrangler. > I'm planning to buy myself a mac pro in the near future (as soon as > they announce the penryn based models) and am planning to dual boot > RELENG_7 on it. I bought one of the first quad 2.6 GHz Mac Pros. Its sweet! Strangely not as solid as my dual G4-867 GHz. The Mac Pro almost always wakes immediately from sleep when manually invoked but stays down the 2nd time. Since Leopard it has failed to properly wake from sleep twice. But no such problem with the G4. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?
David Kelly writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to > > run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but > > I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. > > > > Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? > > I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with > Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. > > There were some Western Digital Firewire externals on the market but > many Mac users had problems. With Apple as one of Firewire's parents its > pretty sad if a Firewire product doesn't work with a Mac. Are you running Mac OS X on your mac, or FreeBSD? I've had (until last week) an 8-core mac pro that was dual booting FreeBSD RELENG_6 and Mac OS X. FreeBSD would lock up the machine whenever I plugged a firewire disk drive into it (I tried 4 different disk drives). I'd see a couple of messages via syslog and boom. I didn't have time to debug it and now no longer have the machine, so this is useless as a bug report, but I'm curious what your experience has been. I'm planning to buy myself a mac pro in the near future (as soon as they announce the penryn based models) and am planning to dual boot RELENG_7 on it. If it's still having firewire problems, I'll follow up with a proper bug report. g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to > run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but > I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. > > Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. There were some Western Digital Firewire externals on the market but many Mac users had problems. With Apple as one of Firewire's parents its pretty sad if a Firewire product doesn't work with a Mac. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?
Hello, I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
