Re: any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-15 Thread Peter
--- John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with FreeBSD. Anything I should be concerned about? I've been using them for backup and they're great. Support was flaky in 5.3 but it's been very reliable in 5.4 and 6.0. I would

Re: any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-15 Thread John R Levine
Any hints on how to get started? I am reading the GEOM section in the manual and it focuses on setting up RAID. Just label the drives, so they'll show up as /dev/ufs/volumename when you plug them in. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies,

any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-03 Thread Peter
I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with FreeBSD. Anything I should be concerned about? -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca

Re: any issues with usb hard drives?

2006-02-03 Thread John Levine
I'm wondering whether USB hard drives will work out of the box with FreeBSD. Anything I should be concerned about? I've been using them for backup and they're great. Support was flaky in 5.3 but it's been very reliable in 5.4 and 6.0. I would suggest using GEOM to label them so they have