From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 17 3:45:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91FD37B678 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 03:45:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA86914; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:45:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:45:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Brian Handy Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewire revisited In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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