Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:45:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewire revisited Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007170643030.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007161808210.13814-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Brian Handy wrote: >Hi All, > >I've asked about firewire before and have gotten a very lukewarm >response; I guess it's not so popular around these parts. One of my >coworkers just read about some firewire gizmo that would allow you to >install an IDE disk in this firewire box. Once you had it set up, it was >hot swappable -- which suggests that it would be really easy to work on a >huge dataset at work, then pull the drive, lug it home and keep >going. (He's talking about doing this with a 75GB drive, to give you a >feel for the volume of data we're working with. It's all solar physics >stuff, lots of images.) > >Is there anything in FreeBSD that would allow me to do something like >this? Hmm... I've done this without firewire, just a plain ol 3 gig ide drive... Had it in the case, as long as I umounted it before removing the machine was pretty happy to think it had a phantom disk until I plugged it back in and mounted it. They sell sleds to make ide drives removable so you dont need to take your computer apart each time. I heard www.compgeeks.com had these cheap at some time but I didnt look. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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