Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:42 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "FreeBSD Stable List" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <ybssmtjfjzh.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> References: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm>
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Oops, I don't read this list so often.. Please post FireWire related problems to freebsd-firewire. At Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:33:43 -0600, Aaron Wohl wrote: > > The maxtor 5000xx series does not work on 4.7 or 5.0 for all variations > of stable/currrent/standard. This is for USB1 USB2 and firewire. Tested > with many different usb and firewire controllers. Newing a newfs on usb2 > on one of these disks with 5.0 (4.7 doesnt support usb2) crashes the os > with a bad page fault every time. Under firewire the OS doesnt really > recognize them as disks and get them fully mounted. Could you send me the output of 'fwcontrol -d node_id_of_the_drive' ? > Some of the older enclosers you add your own drive to kind of work with > firewire. However id advise you do transfer some large files (say > 200megabyte) to the disk make many copies then check the md5 checksums. > Also check the dmesg logs. The other enclosures I tried worked ok for > smaller files but go timeouts and trashed data on largers files. Are you still getting the problem with the latest code? > The adaptec fireconnect and universal (usb2+firewirecards) seem to work > fine by themselfs. All of controller cards seemed ok. Its just something > messed up with using them for disks. > > Tests where conducted on 4.7 (standard,stable), 5.0 (standard, current) > using a 120gb maxtor DV5000 a 250gb maxtor DV5000, and ADS enclosure with > a maxtor disk added to it, a USB2 enclosure "USB2.0 slim its labled" from > compusa. This with 5 different computers (various motherboards). > > We ended up going with tape backups. /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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