From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 19 7:34:53 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 AA33537B404 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.205.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC50C43F93 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49407218096 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:46 +0900 (JST) Received: from mailhosting.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (IDENT:mirapoint@mailhosting.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.205.3]) by is1.mh.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.12.8/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h2JFYkHH024008; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:46 +0900 Received: from ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.135.3]) by mailhosting.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id AID29046; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:42 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:42 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa To: "Aaron Wohl" Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , "FreeBSD Stable List" Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives In-Reply-To: <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> References: <1045781415.41689.8.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20030221203343.8504926089@www.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.0 (Wonderwall) REMI/1.14.3 (Matsudai) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 8) (Honest Recruiter) (i386--freebsd) X-Face: OE([KxWyJI0r[R~S/>7ia}SJ)i%a,$-9%7{*yihQk|]gl}2p#"oXmX/fT}Bn7: #j7i14gu$jgR\S*&C3R/pJX List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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