Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:18:51 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Western Digital combination usb/firewire hdd Message-ID: <20060327091851.05f83d4f.conrads@cox.net>
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I just added a 320-gig Western Digital external hard disk drive to my amd64 RELENG_6 system (as /dev/da0). The OEM docs recommend connecting both the USB *and* the firewire cables for optimal performance, which I've done. What I'm wondering is: how does FreeBSD deal with such a setup? Does it favor one connection over the other, or does it actually use both? It seems I'm getting firewire throughput on the device (at bootup dmesg reports 50 MB/s transfer rate, rather than the slower 12 MB/s USB rate). The device is working just fine, but I'm just curious about this, if anyone has any clues. Thanks! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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