Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:28:04 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Current state of firewire support? Message-ID: <55887DE4.3070207@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <201506221439.t5MEddYe026712@sdf.org> References: <mailman.59.1434974401.37644.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <201506221439.t5MEddYe026712@sdf.org>
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>> crack it out of the case and wire it directly into a sata/ide port, or >> mount it in a usb caddy? If it was my personal drive, sure... other people don't tend to like it when you hack apart their stuff though :/ > Oh, nonsense. Quartz just read it wrong. That is perfectly possible. I haven't messed with firewire for a while and wasn't familiar with what freebsd used to offer, so I'm confused about what was changed. >Firewire support works > fine. Support for firewire was only removed from the GENERIC kernel > configuration file, so all he needs to do is put those lines into his > kernel configuration file and rebuild his kernel. > Also nonsense all he needs to do is > > kldload /boot/kernel/firewire.ko > or > echo 'firewire_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf > and reboot Ok awesome, so I can add a line to loader.conf or if for some weird reason that fails just recompile the kernel?
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