can one use USB attached storage (hard disk) for crash dumps?

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Tue Jun 28 06:16:09 PDT 2005


Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:Hello!
:
:	Since I can not use ips driver for crashdumps I was wondering whether I 
:could use hard disk connected via USB to the machine to perform crashdumps?
:
:Toma¾

    I don't think that will work but since it goes through the CAM layer
    I'm not sure if CAM provides a crashdump abstraction or not.
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	Crash dump support for the ips driver is simply a matter of porting
	it from FreeBSD HEAD.
					-Hiten
					Hiten Pandya




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