Date: 24 Feb 2003 11:47:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Tenebrae <tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com> Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <1046049424.26736.1.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030222163739.C16106-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> References: <20030222163739.C16106-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com>
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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:22, Tenebrae wrote: > I'm looking at using aforementioned hardware to back up my server. There > aren't any more available IDE channels or even places inside the case to > put another drive, so external is what I'm looking at. > My favourite vendor also has an external PARALLEL drive enclosure. With > the potential data corruption mentioned with Firewire, would I be better > off with getting the parallel enclosure? > I have too much data to back up to tape. Parallel is hideously slow and inefficient. Personally I'd try Firewire, but I haven't had any problems with it [yet]. Actually, I am wondering what sort of chipset the person who was having corruption issues was using.. Older VIA chipsets have a bug which affects bus master transfers :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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