Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:01:55 +0100 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB 2.0 harddisk performance Message-ID: <1078214515.3868.3.camel@cronos.home.vsb> In-Reply-To: <1627CFD6-6BAB-11D8-A797-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <1078149483.6895.7.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <1078158992.25271.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <1627CFD6-6BAB-11D8-A797-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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Hello Charles Thanks for your answer. I was googling for this, and I found out that you need some modules: firewire.c fwohci.c fwohci_pci.c Will the fwohci driver provide better perfomance then the USB one? On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:05, Charles Swiger wrote: > 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 > storage devices. I haven't beaten on IP-over-Firewire or some of the > other capabilities that one might also experiment with.... > > > The disk does have a firewire link, I can buy an addon card for about > > 30 > > ¤, 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 > external drive via Firewire; this drive also supports USB 2, but at the > time I was testing OHCI USB was all that was available to me, not EHCI. > > (USB 1 was giving ~1.2 MB/s...) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 ______________________________________________________________________
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