Date: 22 Feb 2003 13:08:35 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Aaron Wohl <freebsd@soith.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <1045881514.23080.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> References: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm>
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On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 07:03, Aaron Wohl wrote: > 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. Hmm.. can you explain more about the firewire bit? The enclosure I have gets this -> firewire0: New S400 device ID:0030e001e0017089 firewire0: Device SBP-II sbp0: <SBP2/SCSI over firewire> on firewire0 da1 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: <Wise Adv Wise Advanced ID 0028> Fixed Simplified Direct Access SCSI-4 device da1: 50.000MB/s transfers da1: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 9729C) sbp0:0:0 request timeout ... agent reset It seems to work fine too. > 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. OK, I just copied a 600Mb file over and it verifies properly. > 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. Bummer :( > 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). OK.. Under -stable I had to get a patch for the sbp code to use M_NOWAIT otherwise it would panic fairly easily.. > We ended up going with tape backups. Not an option for me :) -- 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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