SimpleTech USB HDD driver

[dodell at sitetronics.com]

I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with
FreeBSD 4.8 (the 
HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120). AFAIK, 4.8 doesn't support USB HDDs. Why
is this?

If it is possible to write the drivers for this, I've got a couple of
questions: 
Who does the USB mass storage drivers?
Where in the kernel do I need to look for information on writing them?
Is the drive supported in 5.1 (I'm not sure what chipset it's using)? If
so, how hard would it be 
to backport (or should I forget it and just upgrade to 5.1 with my lazy
ass)?
How badly am I going to screw up the HDD when my driver doesn't work? ;)

Hope there're some ideas out there :)

Thanks!

Devon

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