On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:47:20 -0600
Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> wrote:


> > I can continue to operate my drive on USB but I may need firewire
> > in the near future.  I have a friend who is a photographer and I
> > archive her photos for her.  She sends me an external drive or two
> > and I burn her projects onto DVD.  I am not sure if her drives have
> > an USB connector.
> 
> Note that you can still run "kldload sbp" after bootup to see fireware
> disks.  You can also try adding "device sbp" back to your kernel
> config and see if it works for you.  The hangs apparently only happen
> on certain motherboards.
> 
Dan

Last week I added sbp_load to /boot/loader.conf, reconnected the
firewire cable to the external drive and rebooted.

All is working fine.

Thanks

Robert
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