On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Aaron Wohl wrote: > Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one > or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a > production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some > usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 > speeds.
I am using firewire to do exactly that. Cheap firewire cards in all my machines, couple of 180G external firewire hard drives as the storage media. I put a normal filesystem on the drive, then run 'dump' through gzip to create backups. Firewire support has been in -stable for a few months now. It works well in general; throughput is good, the only problems I have run into relate to error handling under fault conditions (at one point I had a loose power connection on a drive, which lead to lock-ups rather than more graceful error handling). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
