Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-24 Thread Salim Shaw
Openbsd 3.9 does not seem to support vfat file systems. Before mounting your external usb harddrive you probably want to make sure that the drive is formatted as a msdos or ext2 file system. I had this problem with a iomega external drive. Salim On 9/16/06, Default User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-20 Thread Rafael Morales
I use OpenBSD 3.8 on a Powerbook G4, and when I connect my USB external hard drive, this is my output: Sep 20 12:10:41 Apocalypsis /bsd: umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 Sep 20 12:10:43 Apocalypsis /bsd: Sep 20 12:10:43 Apocalypsis /bsd: umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass

Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-20 Thread Srebrenko Sehic
On 9/20/06, Rafael Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use OpenBSD 3.8 on a Powerbook G4, and when I connect my USB external hard drive, this is my output: Sep 20 12:10:41 Apocalypsis /bsd: umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 Sep 20 12:10:43 Apocalypsis /bsd: Sep 20 12:10:43

Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-20 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:26:48PM -0500, Rafael Morales wrote: I use OpenBSD 3.8 on a Powerbook G4, and when I connect my USB external hard drive, this is my output: Sep 20 12:10:41 Apocalypsis /bsd: umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 Sep 20 12:10:43 Apocalypsis /bsd: Sep

Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-19 Thread Default User
On 2006/09/16 23:49, Default User wrote: Does OpenBSD 3.9 RELEASE support usb external hard drives? On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:21 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: Generally yes, this type of drive is supported by umass(4). CONFIRMED. At least the Seagate 6Gb pocket USB external hard drive works

USB hard drives

2006-09-16 Thread Default User
Does OpenBSD 3.9 RELEASE support usb external hard drives? I am considering getting one, like the Seagate 6-Gb pocket drive, to back up data from an i386 system, but could not determine from the OBSD i386 hardware information whether such drives are supported.

Re: USB hard drives

2006-09-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/16 23:49, Default User wrote: Does OpenBSD 3.9 RELEASE support usb external hard drives? Generally yes, this type of drive is supported by umass(4). If a particular device doesn't work, try again with a -current snapshot, if it still fails then post back here with a complete dmesg,

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: Any comments on the Buslink drives? I found a site selling both 1.1 and 2.0 drives for a some-what reasonable price. Seems like all the USB 2.0 stuff is 120GB or greater and $100 and up. Since I'm primarily backing up about 1MB of data I'm not sure I

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread shanejp
Quoting Steven Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to stay away from? I have a USB2/Firewire combo unit based on the Prolific PL-3507 chipset. It is problematic and doing a search for it with Google finds that many other people have

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/23/05, Steven Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. I am using a Seagate 80 GB USB 2.0 hard