From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 22 19:52:10 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 6F7C337B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [66.117.154.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD6F43FBD for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1N3q6316856; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:52:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tenebrae X-X-Sender: tenebrae@steeltoe.niceboots.com To: Charles Sprickman Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives In-Reply-To: <20030222154239.Y6425@shell.inch.com> Message-ID: <20030222163739.C16106-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sat, 22 Feb 2003, 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? I was thinking about getting a Coolmax 3.5" external enclosure that could connect via USB 2.0 or Firewire and putting a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB IDE drive in it...The vendor I usually use sells a "PCI to FireWire IEEE 1394 3+1 Ports Host Adapter" that they use different brands interchangeably on as well... I have never used Firewire anything before. > 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? Wish I knew. I'm looking at using aforementioned hardware to back up my server. There aren't any more available IDE channels or even places inside the case to put another drive, so external is what I'm looking at. My favourite vendor also has an external PARALLEL drive enclosure. With the potential data corruption mentioned with Firewire, would I be better off with getting the parallel enclosure? I have too much data to back up to tape. -Tenebrae. --- The sending of any unsolicited email advertising messages to this domain may result in the imposition of civil liability against you in accordance with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code Section 17538.45. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message