I've bought an external portable USB3 HDD drive which claims to support IEEE 1667 and has this partitioning from the manufacturer:
So, some questions emerged on the occasion.
1) Is there need for that EFI partition (and I do not see FreeBSD shows some access to it). I do not plan to boot from the drive.
2) If not, I should
3) Is there any support (or needed support) for IEEE 1667 from FreeBSD, since Windows shows some "Control" device when the disc attached and the disc icon is with a lock sign in Windows' file manager. But no specific messages concerning this IEEE 1667 in FreeBSD's dmesg.
Code:
# gpart show /dev/da0
=> 34 7814037100 da0 GPT (3.6T)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 2008 - free - (1.0M)
411648 7813623808 2 ms-basic-data (3.6T)
7814035456 1678 - free - (839K)
So, some questions emerged on the occasion.
1) Is there need for that EFI partition (and I do not see FreeBSD shows some access to it). I do not plan to boot from the drive.
2) If not, I should
gpart
it new, shouldn't I? I've planned two partitions on it: FAT32 and UFS2 (for compatibility and for productivity and robustness).3) Is there any support (or needed support) for IEEE 1667 from FreeBSD, since Windows shows some "Control" device when the disc attached and the disc icon is with a lock sign in Windows' file manager. But no specific messages concerning this IEEE 1667 in FreeBSD's dmesg.