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Natalia Portillo edited this page Dec 19, 2017 · 2 revisions

The following physical devices are supported:

Operating system support

Device type FreeBSD macOS Linux Windows
SCSI Block device Yes No [1] Yes Yes
SCSI MultiMedia device Yes Not yet [2] Yes Yes
SCSI Streaming device Yes No [1] Yes Yes
Parallel ATA No [3] No [1] Yes Yes
Serial ATA Yes No [1] Yes Yes
USB Partial [4] Partial [5] Yes Yes
FireWire Partial [6] Partial [5] Yes Partial [6]
PCMCIA Partial [7] Partial [5] Yes Partial [7]
SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard Not yet [8] No [1] Yes Untested [9]
  1. a b c d e macOS only allows talking with MultiMedia devices
  2. ^ Support for MultiMedia devices in macOS will be added if users require it
  3. ^ Not supported due to upstream bug
  4. ^ USB descriptors are not retrieved
  5. a b c Only MultiMedia devices can be supported and descriptors will not be retrieved
  6. a b FireWire descriptors are not retrieved
  7. a b PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved
  8. ^ Support will come with FreeBSD 12-RELEASE
  9. ^ Should work, untested due to not available hardware