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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:39:10 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Excellent job on the firewire support!
Message-ID:  <200407182039.10773.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <16634.47272.768935.436137@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <16634.47272.768935.436137@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sunday 18 July 2004 18:51, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to say that I used FreeBSD's firewire and sbp-II
> support for the first time this weekend.  It seems to be fast (over
> 26MB/sec writes, 34MB/sec reads to a LaCie 160GB drive), and robust. 
> It works well on non-i386 platforms -- I'm using it to back up an
> amd64, and to serve as a root device for a FreeBSD/powerpc  machine.
>
> All in all, it totally exceeded my expectations.  Thank you very
> much|

Wait till you try debugging using gdb over firewire with dcons. An all 
round positive experience :-)



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