Date: 13 Feb 2003 14:24:58 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sbp + drive enclosures Message-ID: <1045108497.394.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212220719.061853f8@marble.sentex.ca> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212220719.061853f8@marble.sentex.ca>
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On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:42, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >am attempting to get it to work with the -stable firewire code (It's my > >understanding that 4.x and 5.x code is pretty identical). > I have never used firewire products, but am looking for a setup > where I can safely hot plug hard drives into our FreeBSD backup server to > do fast restores directly to drives. Will any firewire IDE drive enclosure > work ? What cards work best ? I got a cheap (and fairly nasty) enclosure which works fine. I am pretty sure most controller cards conform to the OHCI spec so they Just Work (tm). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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