From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 10:40:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC1837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [66.117.154.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2F343FAF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1OIemJ22393 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:48 -0800 (PST) From: Tenebrae X-X-Sender: tenebrae@steeltoe.niceboots.com To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives In-Reply-To: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> Message-ID: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:22, Tenebrae wrote: > > > I'm looking at using aforementioned hardware to back up my server. > > > There aren't any more available IDE channels or even places inside the > > > case to put another drive, so external is what I'm looking at. > > > My favourite vendor also has an external PARALLEL drive enclosure. > > > With the potential data corruption mentioned with Firewire, would I be > > > better off with getting the parallel enclosure? > > > I have too much data to back up to tape. > > Really? Even to those multi-drive parallel AIT network backup devices? > Or must too much data to backup to tape on your budget? Too much to back up for my budget (budget? what's that?). I have about 70GB of stuff to back up and I don't want to spend over $500US. > I've had good luck with VXA-1 tape drives in the past and Ecrix now has the > VXA-2 drive with 80GB uncompressed capacity at roughly 20GB/hour > throughput. The VXA-2 drive uses Ultra-2 SCSI interface, so finding a > controller that is well supported on FreeBSD won't be a problem. *looks at the price, chokes, coughs* WAY too much for my budget! > Please post information on your known good source. A known good provider of > PCI firewire cards might be helpful for those whose motherboard features > faulty or NO support for firewire, if anyone can recommend one or more of > those... I second that. My motherboard is an old ASUS P5A (socket 7) - no built-in Firewire support. Thank you for the information. I'll avoid the parallel external drive solution. -Tenebrae. --- The sending of any unsolicited email advertising messages to this domain may result in the imposition of civil liability against you in accordance with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code Section 17538.45. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message