From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 12 19:55:10 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 830CD37B401; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAF843F75; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1D3swjs098700; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:24:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: Re: sbp + drive enclosures From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Tancsa Cc: FreeBSD Stable List , Hidetoshi Shimokawa In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212220719.061853f8@marble.sentex.ca> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212220719.061853f8@marble.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1045108497.394.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 13 Feb 2003 14:24:58 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:42, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >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). > 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 ? I got a cheap (and fairly nasty) enclosure which works fine. I am pretty sure most controller cards conform to the OHCI spec so they Just Work (tm). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message