On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: >> As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's >> also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a >> CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so you never have to deal with this mess again. >> It works amazingly well. I was tired of fighting this problem and this is >> an amazing solution -- I can keep every ISO I ever need on a single drive. >> >> http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=431 >> http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=459 >> http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/ve200 > > really nice, thanks for the link. Now if they had something > that supported a USB key it would be even nicer...
I *love* mine - it almost always Just Works. Since all you do is buy the enclosure (around $30), you can put in whatever size 2.5" drive you'd like. I threw in a 750G, so I have ~98G of CD and DVD images. There is a physical rocker switch for navigating the list of ISOs and mounting/unmounting them. You can also toggle ISO-only, drive-only, or hybrid/both mode, so I've got lots of other stuff on there that's handy once you've booted. It also has a physical read-only switch - great feature. The only hangup I've seen so far is if the BIOS doesn't support USB-attached optical drives. There are probably some workarounds for that out there (boot from a USB and then chainload-ish the optical drive), but I have not yet pursued them. There is undocumented support for floppy images as well. I haven't tested it, but there are success stories. *Highly* recommended. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
