Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:33:43 -0600 From: "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "FreeBSD Stable List" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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The maxtor 5000xx series does not work on 4.7 or 5.0 for all variations of stable/currrent/standard. This is for USB1 USB2 and firewire. Tested with many different usb and firewire controllers. Newing a newfs on usb2 on one of these disks with 5.0 (4.7 doesnt support usb2) crashes the os with a bad page fault every time. Under firewire the OS doesnt really recognize them as disks and get them fully mounted. Some of the older enclosers you add your own drive to kind of work with firewire. However id advise you do transfer some large files (say 200megabyte) to the disk make many copies then check the md5 checksums. Also check the dmesg logs. The other enclosures I tried worked ok for smaller files but go timeouts and trashed data on largers files. The adaptec fireconnect and universal (usb2+firewirecards) seem to work fine by themselfs. All of controller cards seemed ok. Its just something messed up with using them for disks. Tests where conducted on 4.7 (standard,stable), 5.0 (standard, current) using a 120gb maxtor DV5000 a 250gb maxtor DV5000, and ADS enclosure with a maxtor disk added to it, a USB2 enclosure "USB2.0 slim its labled" from compusa. This with 5 different computers (various motherboards). We ended up going with tape backups. ----- Original message ----- From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "FreeBSD Stable List" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: 21 Feb 2003 09:20:15 +1030 Subject: Maxtor Firewire Drives Has anyone used one? In particular the "Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV/5000XT"? A customer of ours is considering buying one and I want to know if they're going to work :) Apparently they work under Linux - http://www.linux1394.org/cgi-bin/view_device.cgi?id=465 http://www.linux1394.org/cgi-bin/view_device.cgi?id=458 Given that it appears to use the SBP protocol I don't expect any problems, but I would appreciate any first hand knowledge :) -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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