Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:05:56 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB 2.0 harddisk performance Message-ID: <1627CFD6-6BAB-11D8-A797-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1078158992.25271.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb> References: <1078149483.6895.7.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <404360B6.7010809@natzo.com> <1078158992.25271.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
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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
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