On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Is support for firewire external disks doing okay? Was it okay around > kernel 2.4.18? Does one have to be careful about firewire cards and/or > disks/enclosures, and if so what are the okay ones? I'm looking at an > external hard drive as a possible backup solution for a linux server. > Oh, and does it handle hot plugging okay? Firewire hardware does, but > does the software, or does it get confused? (Because this is a backup > solution, I'm looking for cheap rather than super-fast-server-grade > controller cards.) Works great on a drive I've got; worked with 2.4.18 IIRC. I've had a couple problems hotplugging (basically, sometimes the drives don't get detected, and you have to unplug/unload modules/replug); but nothing too major. > (I'm assuming firewire will outperform USB 2 for this application, but > it might not if the Linux support were bad enough; if I really should be > looking at USB 2 instead, then same question about USB 2 controller > cards. This old system is PCI bus but doesn't support such modern > things as USB or firewire on the motherboard.) USB2 should also be fine; the enclosure I've got does both. In my experience, it handles hotplugging a little better. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list