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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.

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