On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 16:15 +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to buy the LaCie 2TB External Drive to backup 1.3 TB > of data from a Debian Sarge 3.X installed Server. Please see the link > below. > > http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351 > > We are not sure how smooth it would be to work with Debian and Firewire 800. > > Has anybody had any experience with this product on Debian Sarge 3.X ? > > Any links / directions / tips would be really appreciated.
It'll work, especially if you use it in FW400 mode. Maybe even in FW800 mode, if you have a recent kernel. The kernel will "just" see it as a big SCSI drive. What would make me refuse to use it is: RAID 0. One disk failure and 2TB of data goes poof. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government." Rush Limbaugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
