From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 22 16:56:56 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 C342937B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:56:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45ACE43FBF for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:56:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp2104.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.28.55]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1N0um0W066580; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:26:50 +1030 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) id h1N0umnt092822; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:26:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2av) with ESMTP id h1N0uiOm092809; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:26:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Charles Sprickman Cc: Aaron Wohl , FreeBSD Stable List In-Reply-To: <20030222154239.Y6425@shell.inch.com> References: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> <1045881514.23080.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> <20030222154239.Y6425@shell.inch.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1045961800.23080.17.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 23 Feb 2003 11:26:40 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.6 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:18, Charles Sprickman wrote: > 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? My card has an Agere chip on it, the one in my laptop is Ti.. Agere -> fwohci0: mem 0xdc042000-0xdc042fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 Ti -> fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xf6ff8000-0xf6ffbfff,0xf6ffd800-0xf6ffdfff irq 11 at device 15.2 on pci2 > 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? I think so, but I've never tried it. It _should_ appear as a SCSI cdrom.. -- 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