Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive
From: Barry Skidmore (skidmore_at_bsd.digital-village.net)
Date: 09/30/03
- Next message: FredBear: "/ was not properly dismounted"
- Previous message: J'm Sm'th: "Re: Can X take a dump elsewhere?"
- In reply to: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Next in thread: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Reply: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:23:03 +0000 (UTC)
Warren,
Thanks for the reply. I would like to be able to do a restore of my
internal hard disk from the external USB disk by booting from the FreeBSD
'live CD' (v 0.6d or 0.9.0 beta). Do you happen to know if the live CD
supports USB?
Thanks,
Barry
In article <slrnbnhn8l.21dl.wblock@w0nkity.wonkity.com>, Warren Block wrote:
> Barry Skidmore <skidmore@bsd.digital-village.net> wrote:
>> I am thinking about purchasing an external USB hard drive to use for
>> backup/restore of my home FreeBSD 5.1 (i386) system.
>>
>> Can anyone make a recommendation of something that has worked well
>> for you?
>
> I've used the Maxtor 40G external USB drive with FreeBSD. It works.
> That was with 4.7/4.8, so it only went at USB 1.0 rates, which are not
> fast. On a USB 2.0 computer with software running it at 2.0 rates, it
> was fine, not noticeably different than IDE.
>
-- +----------------+ | Barry Skidmore | | FreeBSD 5.1 | | on i386 | +----------------+
- Next message: FredBear: "/ was not properly dismounted"
- Previous message: J'm Sm'th: "Re: Can X take a dump elsewhere?"
- In reply to: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Next in thread: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Reply: Warren Block: "Re: Recommendation for External USB Hard Drive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
