From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 23 17:17:19 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 3787337B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:17:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C4943FDD for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:17:15 -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 h1O1H7js054843; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:47:08 +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: Maxtor Firewire Drives From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Tenebrae Cc: Charles Sprickman , FreeBSD Stable List In-Reply-To: <20030222163739.C16106-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> References: <20030222163739.C16106-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1046049424.26736.1.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 24 Feb 2003 11:47:05 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,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 Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:22, Tenebrae wrote: > 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. Parallel is hideously slow and inefficient. Personally I'd try Firewire, but I haven't had any problems with it [yet]. Actually, I am wondering what sort of chipset the person who was having corruption issues was using.. Older VIA chipsets have a bug which affects bus master transfers :( -- 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