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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."
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