On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Lars Noodin wrote: > David Vasek wrote: >> What would be firewire good for? > > Data transfer such as for full backups or cloning or audio/video. > Haven't tested it yet on OpenBSD, I still have USB-only / ethernet-base > storage for those systems. Subjectively, I find FW to be much faster > than USB2 on my hardware using OS X and Ubuntu.
1) Firewire controller in your machine is a realiable path to have it cracked/crashed at any time (on most of the platforms). 2) Firewire is not supported on OpenBSD. Regards, David
