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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:48:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Aaron Wohl <freebsd@soith.com>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives
Message-ID:  <20030222154239.Y6425@shell.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <1045881514.23080.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>
References:  <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>  <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> <1045881514.23080.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 07:03, Aaron Wohl wrote:
> > The maxtor 5000xx series does not work on 4.7 or 5.0 for all variations
> > of stable/currrent/standard.  This is for USB1 USB2 and firewire.

> Hmm.. can you explain more about the firewire bit?
> The enclosure I have gets this ->
> firewire0: New S400 device ID:0030e001e0017089
> firewire0: Device SBP-I

I've asked before, but maybe things have changed since then...  What cards
are people who are doing devel work using?  Since so many are "no name" or
not identified as a brand on many online stores, can someone post store
and model info?

As for drive enclosures, I was planning on using something with the Oxford
911 chipset.  Might this work?

I'm planning on using one enclosure to share my CD-R drive amongst
machines, and using the other for a hard drive (for backup purposes at
home).  Is this a bad idea?

Thanks,

Charles

> sbp0: <SBP2/SCSI over firewire> on firewire0
> da1 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da1: <Wise Adv Wise Advanced ID 0028> Fixed Simplified Direct Access SCSI-4 device
> da1: 50.000MB/s transfers
> da1: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 9729C)
> sbp0:0:0 request timeout ... agent reset
>
> It seems to work fine too.
>
> > Some of the older enclosers you add your own drive to kind of work with
> > firewire.  However id advise you do transfer some large files (say
> > 200megabyte) to the disk make many copies then check the md5 checksums.
> > Also check the dmesg logs.  The other enclosures I tried worked ok for
> > smaller files but go timeouts and trashed data on largers files.
>
> OK, I just copied a 600Mb file over and it verifies properly.
>
> > The adaptec fireconnect and universal (usb2+firewirecards) seem to work
> > fine by themselfs.  All of controller cards seemed ok. Its just something
> > messed up with using them for disks.
>
> Bummer :(
>
> > Tests where conducted on 4.7 (standard,stable), 5.0 (standard, current)
> > using a 120gb maxtor DV5000 a 250gb maxtor DV5000, and ADS enclosure with
> > a maxtor disk added to it, a USB2 enclosure "USB2.0 slim its labled" from
> > compusa.  This with 5 different computers (various motherboards).
>
> OK.. Under -stable I had to get a patch for the sbp code to use M_NOWAIT
> otherwise it would panic fairly easily..
>
> > We ended up going with tape backups.
>
> Not an option for me :)
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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