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

[Hiten Pandya]

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