From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 00:01:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCC216A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:01:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from poros.telenet-ops.be (poros.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959AA43D31 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:01:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E1AD3800AD; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:01:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d5152A4C1.kabel.telenet.be [81.82.164.193]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA4638002C; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:01:55 +0100 (MET) From: Guy Van Sanden To: Charles Swiger 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1078214515.3868.3.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:01:55 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: USB 2.0 harddisk performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:01:56 -0000 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 ______________________________________________________________________