Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Aaron Wohl <freebsd@soith.com> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: usb 2 or firewire in stable? Message-ID: <20021223155014.O9439-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20021223153915.A474F1754C@www.fastmail.fm>
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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
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