[Soekris] 5501 USB2 External Hard Disk support under FreeBSD

[Jared D. McNeill]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Martin Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone had a chance of test the stability of external USB2 hard
> disks attached to the 5501's USB port?  Preferably under FreeBSD.
>
> If I recall correctly, you can't boot from a USB hard disk because the
> BIOS doesn't support it.  But if I boot from some other device, is
> there any reason why I can't use a big Lacie USB disk for bulk storage?

I can't speak for FreeBSD, but it works great for me on NetBSD. I boot 
from CF, and use a larger USB disk for storage.

Cheers,
Jared