From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 12 19: 7:49 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 F1F4D37B401; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F79043FA3; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1D37k2T090288; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:07:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212220719.061853f8@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:12:16 -0500 To: "Daniel O'Connor" , FreeBSD Stable List From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: sbp + drive enclosures Cc: Hidetoshi Shimokawa In-Reply-To: <1045096485.398.14.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) 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 At 11:04 AM 13/02/2003 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >Hi, >I have purchased (well work has :) a 3.5" HD firewire enclosure, and I >am attempting to get it to work with the -stable firewire code (It's my >understanding that 4.x and 5.x code is pretty identical). Hi, I have never used firewire products, but am looking for a setup where I can safely hot plug hard drives into our FreeBSD backup server to do fast restores directly to drives. Will any firewire IDE drive enclosure work ? What cards work best ? ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message