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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:05:56 -0500
To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: USB 2.0 harddisk performance
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On Mar 1, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> Is firewire fully supported on FreeBSD?

Firewire support has been pretty good, at least for accessing mass=20
storage devices.  I haven't beaten on IP-over-Firewire or some of the=20
other capabilities that one might also experiment with....

> The disk does have a firewire link, I can buy an addon card for about=20=

> 30
> =80, but I wanna make sure that it will work better.

I was seeing about 35 MB/s read and about 20 MB/s using a Maxtor 5000DN=20=

external drive via Firewire; this drive also supports USB 2, but at the=20=

time I was testing OHCI USB was all that was available to me, not EHCI.

(USB 1 was giving ~1.2 MB/s...)

--=20
-Chuck