From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 23 7:57:42 2002 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 42C3237B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:57:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C4643EDA for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C826F9B21; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7CF5D27; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Aaron Wohl Cc: Subject: Re: usb 2 or firewire in stable? In-Reply-To: <20021223153915.A474F1754C@www.fastmail.fm> Message-ID: <20021223155014.O9439-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> 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 Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Aaron Wohl wrote: > Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one > or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a > production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some > usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 > speeds. I am using firewire to do exactly that. Cheap firewire cards in all my machines, couple of 180G external firewire hard drives as the storage media. I put a normal filesystem on the drive, then run 'dump' through gzip to create backups. Firewire support has been in -stable for a few months now. It works well in general; throughput is good, the only problems I have run into relate to error handling under fault conditions (at one point I had a loose power connection on a drive, which lead to lock-ups rather than more graceful error handling). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message