FireWire PCMCIA card ?
Hi folks, I'm getting very short on hard drive space on my laptop, and the prices for a 30/40 GB internal disks are... awful !! So I thaught if an external FireWire hard drive, and in fact I saw some cheap disks. But, the question is: Is anyone of us get a PCMCIA FireWire adapter and plugged a disk on it ? Is it working ? any Success-stories around ? :) Thanks for your answers, Cheers, -- Helios de Creisquer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tuxfamily.org/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.vhffs.org/ +33 (0)6 70 71 20 29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gnu.org/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG(1024D/96EB1C44): FB11 8B80 4D86 D9C2 DE0C 11D7 2FA8 A5CC 96EB 1C44 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FireWire PCMCIA card ?
Hi ! On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:06:43AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Quoting Helios de Creisquer on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:00:39PM +0100: [snip] > > But, the question is: Is anyone of us get a PCMCIA FireWire adapter and > > plugged a disk on it ? Is it working ? any Success-stories around ? :) > > > I don't have a success story myself, but I found this by David Hinds, > the keeper of the pcmcia stuff on pcmcia firewire cards: > > http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS FYI, I've got a 'conceptronic CON1394C Firewire PC Card'. This card is not listed anywhere but is very cheap... and it works well (unless you unplug the disk even unmounted: forget your uptime) :) I plugged on it a generic Firewire/ATA-100 box and all is working very well... with kernel 2.4.17 (iee1394 ohci + sbp2 support enabled.) I'll send the card references to David Hints soon... But ! there is a problem anyway: the sbp2 protocol identify the external Hard Drive as a SCSI disk (/dev/sda). So I can't run something like hdpam on it :( and the speed really sucks... Anyone have an idea on how to optimize that sort of things ? (3Mo/s is SLOOOWW)... SYL, and oh! Happy New Year :) -- Hélios de Creisquer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FireWire PCMCIA card ?
Hi folks, I'm getting very short on hard drive space on my laptop, and the prices for a 30/40 GB internal disks are... awful !! So I thaught if an external FireWire hard drive, and in fact I saw some cheap disks. But, the question is: Is anyone of us get a PCMCIA FireWire adapter and plugged a disk on it ? Is it working ? any Success-stories around ? :) Thanks for your answers, Cheers, -- Helios de Creisquer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tuxfamily.org/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.vhffs.org/ +33 (0)6 70 71 20 29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gnu.org/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG(1024D/96EB1C44): FB11 8B80 4D86 D9C2 DE0C 11D7 2FA8 A5CC 96EB 1C44
Re: FireWire PCMCIA card ?
Hi ! On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:06:43AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Quoting Helios de Creisquer on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:00:39PM +0100: [snip] > > But, the question is: Is anyone of us get a PCMCIA FireWire adapter and > > plugged a disk on it ? Is it working ? any Success-stories around ? :) > > > I don't have a success story myself, but I found this by David Hinds, > the keeper of the pcmcia stuff on pcmcia firewire cards: > > http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS FYI, I've got a 'conceptronic CON1394C Firewire PC Card'. This card is not listed anywhere but is very cheap... and it works well (unless you unplug the disk even unmounted: forget your uptime) :) I plugged on it a generic Firewire/ATA-100 box and all is working very well... with kernel 2.4.17 (iee1394 ohci + sbp2 support enabled.) I'll send the card references to David Hints soon... But ! there is a problem anyway: the sbp2 protocol identify the external Hard Drive as a SCSI disk (/dev/sda). So I can't run something like hdpam on it :( and the speed really sucks... Anyone have an idea on how to optimize that sort of things ? (3Mo/s is SLOOOWW)... SYL, and oh! Happy New Year :) -- Hélios de Creisquer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
