Re: Firewire RAM access

2010-07-29 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 07/27/10 07:38, EforeZZ wrote: Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its "-m" switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. The question is.. Should this always wo

Firewire RAM access

2010-07-27 Thread EforeZZ
Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its "-m" switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. 5 r...@purevil:t

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
David Horn wrote: Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be able to install. As per svn and cvs: r199112 | kensmith | 2009

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread David Horn
IC kernel configuration for RELENG_8_0 branch *and* tagged with the RELENG_8_0_0_RELEASE tag, so the release build will have sbp disabled in the default GENERIC kernel configuration. (In other words, you should not have boot hangs by default due to firewire in 8.0 release) As far is 7.x is concerned, t

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/21/09, David Horn wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 11/21/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >>> Tim Judd wrote: >>>> Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can >>>> disable firewire on t

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread David Horn
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tim Judd wrote: > On 11/21/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Tim Judd wrote: >>> Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can >>> disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) >>> In

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/21/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Tim Judd wrote: >> Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can >> disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) >> Install CD/DVDs? >> >> more than one person is having probl

Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Tim Judd wrote: Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) Install CD/DVDs? more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of

device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver

2009-11-18 Thread Tim Judd
Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) Install CD/DVDs? more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this one. Any a

Re: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm

2009-06-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/6/09 14:42, p...@pair.com wrote: > In message <20090624121036.ga3...@holstein.holy.cow> on -mobile > list[0], I asked for suggestions for a firewire or eSATA card to be > put in Thinkpad T61 PCMCIA or EtherExpress slot, while most likely > running FreeBSD 7. > > After

Re: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm

2009-06-30 Thread parv
In message <20090624121036.ga3...@holstein.holy.cow> on -mobile list[0], I asked for suggestions for a firewire or eSATA card to be put in Thinkpad T61 PCMCIA or EtherExpress slot, while most likely running FreeBSD 7. After about 6 days getting no replies but still dwindling hard disk

FreeBSD & FireWire

2009-06-29 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Hi all ! I'm trying to read from two firewire DV cameras. calling fwcontrol without arguments shows me three elements. except EUI64 field, every datas (node, ...) change when I plug in or out a device. when I'm trying to read from my cameras' streams (using fwcontrol), I alwa

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-20 Thread Timm Wimmers
Andrew Moran schrieb: > > Hey guys, > > I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a > USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and > successfully booting off of it? If I remember right, enable the Open Firmware prompt to boot to

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Moran
on a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and successfully booting off of it? I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot FreeBSD 7.1 from USB2 drive: pe-acc-2b# df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0a 939M42

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Andrew Moran wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a > USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and > successfully booting off of it? I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot Free

Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and successfully booting off of it? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Firewire problem

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Jeays
I bought a PCI/Firewire card and cable, and used it to connect my Sony PV-GS80 camcorder, which uses MiniDV tapes and has a Firewire socket. I get the following messages in /var/log/messages, which suggest the Firewire card may be a bad one. # Turn camera on Nov 6 20:40:00 pcbsd kernel

Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:23:53PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > David Kelly writes: > > > > I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with > > Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. > > Are you running Mac OS X on your mac, or FreeBSD? I see li

Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread George Hartzell
David Kelly writes: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to > > run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but &g

Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to > run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but > I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS)

Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? -

firewire network

2007-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
from fwip manual --- The fwip driver provides standard IP over FireWire (IEEE 1394) based on the protocols described in RFC 2734 and RFC 3146. The firewire(4) and fwohci(4) drivers must be configured in the kernel as well. This driver supports polling

Expected speed of firewire-attached drive?

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
while. The backup medium is one of those firewire-attached Maxtor 300G drives, but to make it interesting I compress the backup image with bzip2 (which keeps the file size down to about 16G). Dmesg.boot says that the drive is capable of 50MB/s, the firewire driver says nothing obvious about speed,

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread George Fazio
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-12 Thread David Kelly
On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially) the same socket

Testing firewire

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I'd like to know if my firewire interface works before I set out to buy some miniDV - I have no devices to attach, or so I thought, I have two notebooks with firewire interfaces. So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ord

Re: Ethernet over Firewire fwe0:

2006-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
jerry > Hi, > > Is there any known problem with installing on a machine whose > Ethernet is fwe0: "Ethernet over Firewire" ? > > I am still trying to install on that IBM Z61t notebook. > I get it all to appear to work - boot into sysinstall, slicing > an

Ethernet over Firewire fwe0:

2006-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Is there any known problem with installing on a machine whose Ethernet is fwe0: "Ethernet over Firewire" ? I am still trying to install on that IBM Z61t notebook. I get it all to appear to work - boot into sysinstall, slicing and partitioning, making install choices and sett

Change detection order for firewire vs SCSI?

2006-06-22 Thread Howard Jones
I have an old dual-P3 server with an internal SCSI backplane. I also have an external firewire drive attached to it as cheap, 'disposable' storage. It all works swimmingly apart from one thing: When the system boots, it loads the kernel from the SCSI drive OK, then at some stage i

Unwanted repeated firewire bus reset

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hello, I have two firewire devieces, a pcmcia ieee1394 (firewire) card, and a digital video camera with a firewire output plug. I can get digital video from the camera and write it to disk with the fwcontrol utility, and, I can play back the dv (digital video) file with xdvplay. When I play

Western Digital combination usb/firewire hdd

2006-03-27 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
I just added a 320-gig Western Digital external hard disk drive to my amd64 RELENG_6 system (as /dev/da0). The OEM docs recommend connecting both the USB *and* the firewire cables for optimal performance, which I've done. What I'm wondering is: how does FreeBSD deal with such a setup

Re: Mounting Reiserfs partition from firewire

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, This is my first time trying to mount a Reiserfs 3.6 partition on a firewire drive in FreeBSD 6.0, and I was wondering if there were any additional things that I needed to look into as far as controlling the drive (resetting it

Mounting Reiserfs partition from firewire

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, This is my first time trying to mount a Reiserfs 3.6 partition on a firewire drive in FreeBSD 6.0, and I was wondering if there were any additional things that I needed to look into as far as controlling the drive (resetting it for powerdown) and any additional things I need for

best outboard drive for 5 stable (firewire?)

2006-01-25 Thread secmgr
I'm stuck on 5 stable for awhile. USB2 was (maybe still is ) dicey and caused system/process lockups while reading from a cyprus c/s based drive. USB1 is Slooowww, but works. How was firewire support in the 5 stable series? Any recommended cards? thank

Re: MiniDV over firewire howto

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Kane
Igor Robul wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I have just discovered that Canon MiniDV series have different names in US which may explain why I haven't got much response on my previous posts on this. I want to buy a camcorder and like the specs of Canon MiniDV's, I failed when trying MVX200

Re: MiniDV over firewire howto

2005-10-20 Thread Igor Robul
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I have just discovered that Canon MiniDV series have different names in US which may explain why I haven't got much response on my previous posts on this. I want to buy a camcorder and like the specs of Canon MiniDV's, I failed when trying MVX200 which is equivalen

MiniDV over firewire howto

2005-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have just discovered that Canon MiniDV series have different names in US which may explain why I haven't got much response on my previous posts on this. I want to buy a camcorder and like the specs of Canon MiniDV's, I failed when trying MVX200 which is equivalent to the Elura 60 (wel

Digital Video/Firewire: missing link?

2005-09-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, After reading a lot of documentation it appeared that passing digital video would be easy, so I jumped in and bought a Canon MVX200. Now I have a missing link: Connecting via firewire to get the raw video. The camera has two modes: Play and Network, according to the manual network

Firewire setup/test

2005-07-20 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi, I want to buy a miniDV camera, transfer the DV stream using firewire. Now, I'm really newbie on firewire devices and DV, I have none so far, and I'd really like to test and see it work before throwing out $1000. I know, this is probably one of those questions that I would answ

Re: which firewire card for 5.4 ? Will adaptec fireconnect 8300 work ?

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
> > > port and two 800 ports... > > > > > > thanks. > > > > > > > By the looks of it yes but I don't think the > > Firewire 800 will work. > > Uses Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 (FW 400) & TSB81BA3 > > (FW 800) chipsets > > > &

Re: which firewire card for 5.4 ? Will adaptec fireconnect 8300 work ?

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
adaptors. > > Will both of these work in FreeBSD 5.4 ? I am > particularly interested in the 8300, which has one 400 > port and two 800 ports... > > thanks. > By the looks of it yes but I don't think the Firewire 800 will work. Uses Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 (FW

which firewire card for 5.4 ? Will adaptec fireconnect 8300 work ?

2005-06-29 Thread Joe Schmoe
Hello, The hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD 5.4 lists: Adaptec AHA-894x/AIC-5800 which I cannot find on the adaptec web site. What I _can_ find is the adaptec 4300 and 8300 fireconnect adaptors. Will both of these work in FreeBSD 5.4 ? I am particularly interested in the 8300, which ha

VHS to DVD conversion: problem with firewire, nfs, whatever

2005-06-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
connection the output from my VCR tol A/V and the firewire link to my PC. I then press play on the VCR and use fwcontrol -R on my PC to cature. Peace of cake! However: The fwcontrol utility prints out "n blocks padded" once about every minute, and "fwohci0: IR DMA buffer ove

Re: PCI Firewire cards that work with 5.4R ??

2005-06-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 10 June 2005 10:10 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: > I need to find a PCI FireWire card that will work with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. > It will be easiest for me to purchase something from Best Buy, which pretty > much limits me to either a Dynex DX-FC103, or an Adaptec AFW-4300CS. > I&#x

PCI Firewire cards that work with 5.4R ??

2005-06-10 Thread Bob Johnson
I need to find a PCI FireWire card that will work with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. It will be easiest for me to purchase something from Best Buy, which pretty much limits me to either a Dynex DX-FC103, or an Adaptec AFW-4300CS. The Dynex card uses an Agere FW323-06 Firewire chip, which is not listed

Re: Firewire Support on 4.11 ?

2005-05-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Alessandro de Manzano wrote: I'ld use an external hard disk on a server of mine, and since USB 2.0 support is not available in FBSD 4.x, I'ld try with firewire. (I can't install 5.4-R on it) Any suggestion or hint ? Are there some recommended FW chipsets or something to avoid ?

Firewire 800 to IDE?

2005-05-19 Thread John Pettitt
I've got four of WD250 GB drives that I want to hook to a FreeBSD 5.4 box that happens to have a Firewire 800 card in it (it's already got three FW 400 disks attached). I have some FW->IDE boards that don't work with BSD (it sees the device but never detects the drive) -

Firewire Support on 4.11 ?

2005-05-19 Thread Alessandro de Manzano
[please answer me directly too since I'm not subscribed to this list, thanks!] Hello, I've a question about firewire support on FreeBSD 4.11-R. I'ld use an external hard disk on a server of mine, and since USB 2.0 support is not available in FBSD 4.x, I'ld try with firewi

Re: Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Ed Stover
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi Rob, > > >>Can someone give me a layman's answer to how I can >>use the firewire as the second ethernet card? >>The backside of the computer has a socket labeled >>'1394', but this is not a RJ-45 connector. Do I >&

Re: Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Joel
t has this also built-in: (B> skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet (B> firewire0: on fwohci0 (B> fwe0: (B> (B> (these lines are from dmesg output) (B> (B> The 'skc0' has the regular ethernet socket (RJ-45 (B> connector), so I can use that as one e

Re: Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Rob
--- Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > Can someone give me a layman's answer to how I can > > use the firewire as the second ethernet card? > > The backside of the computer has a socket labeled > > '1394', but this is not

Re: Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Rob, > Can someone give me a layman's answer to how I can > use the firewire as the second ethernet card? > The backside of the computer has a socket labeled > '1394', but this is not a RJ-45 connector. Do I > need a converter cable from firewire to RJ-45?

Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Rob
on Lite Gigabit Ethernet firewire0: on fwohci0 fwe0: (these lines are from dmesg output) The 'skc0' has the regular ethernet socket (RJ-45 connector), so I can use that as one ethernet connection. Can I use the firewire/ethernet as the second ethernet card on this computer. If yes, how

Re: Can't find rootvp if booting with a plugged-in firewire HD

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
OK - I did find the answer ... After plugging-in the firewire device, /dev/da0 changes to /dev/da1 while botting and /dev/da1 (aka firewire) changes to /dev/da0. How can it be accomplished that /dev/da0 (my non-removable SCSI disk) remains /dev/da0, no matter how many removable drives are added to

Can't find rootvp if booting with a plugged-in firewire HD

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Hello, I have a problem after adding a firewire hard disk to my system. I did format and label the drive and the drive works without any problem. After a reboot I am getting the following message after the firewire was detected: ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp The firewire disk is /dev/da1 a

Re: mounting firewire/USB storate devices

2005-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) Is there an easier way to manage these devices. For example, if > there is a way to auto mount them when they are plugged in that would > be nice. Gnome 2.8 is supposed to support this, but I have not found > any clear way on how to set it up. See th

Re: mounting firewire/USB storate devices

2005-01-04 Thread Christian Tischler
Kevin Smith wrote: I'm a little new at this, but can some suggest what is the best way to mount firewire and usb storage devices ? I am using both my ipod and compact flash devices with freeBSD but I find that I do not have a simple setup that allows me to mount them easily without man

mounting firewire/USB storate devices

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Smith
I'm a little new at this, but can some suggest what is the best way to mount firewire and usb storage devices ? I am using both my ipod and compact flash devices with freeBSD but I find that I do not have a simple setup that allows me to mount them easily without manually looking at the

Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-10 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Rob [2004-12-09 22:21 +0900] > What do I need for transferring the movies from the video camera > to my PC? Do I need software? Is that in the ports? The camera will almost certainly send raw dv-data iver the ieee1394 (aka firewire, ilink, etc) cable when set on "Play".

Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-09 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
Hi, I know a very good software used by internet2 (research channel) people. Its DVTS: phantor# whereis dvts dvts: /usr/ports/multimedia/dvts http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/ Try to use it. It workd with IPv6, IPv4 unicast and multicast modes. Do you have a digital mini DV camera and firewar

Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-09 Thread Anish Mistry
eg tools package. The mjpeg AVI can be converted to mpeg video/audio > and burned onto a VCD later. > > gdvrecv-1.1 > gdvrecv is a set of tools for FreeBSD 5 to receives audio and video data > from a digital camcorder via an IEEE 1394 (widely known as FireWire) > link and stores the

Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-09 Thread Rob
FreeBSD 5 to receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an IEEE 1394 (widely known as FireWire) link and stores them into an DV file. kino-dvtitler-0.1.1_1 kino-0.7.5_2 libdv-0.103 The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital

Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-09 Thread Lou Katz
On Linux, DVGRAB does just this - reads a 1394 input and creates AVI files from the video/audio stream. At least one program in ports/multimedia mentions dvgrab, but I cannot find that program itself in ports. -- -=[L]=- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How?

2004-12-09 Thread Rob
Hi, First of all, I don't know much at about the firewire stuff. I've never used it before. A friend of mine has a digital video camera (SamSung SCD70) and wants me to transfer recordings to the computer. Before visiting me, this friend will buy a "IEEE 1394 add-on card" as the

Re: Video over Firewire?

2004-10-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Loren M. Lang, 2004-10-18] > I am intresting in doing video capture over firewire on FreeBSD. I > understand that FreeBSD supports firewire controllers that conform to > the OHCI spec (basically, all of them), but it seems that it really is > only useful for SBP2 which is just

Video over Firewire?

2004-10-18 Thread Loren M. Lang
I am intresting in doing video capture over firewire on FreeBSD. I understand that FreeBSD supports firewire controllers that conform to the OHCI spec (basically, all of them), but it seems that it really is only useful for SBP2 which is just hard drives. Is there any support for video, yet or

firewire pseudo-hotplug

2004-08-16 Thread Charles Ulrich
Hello, Is there any way to make a shell script execute immediately after a firewire device is plugged in? The man pages and mailing list archives didn't even get me close to a hint of whether this is possible or not. Failing that, is there a (good) way to tell from the command line whet

Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

2004-07-26 Thread Mathias Haas
uring the night today and they stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire disk. At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't have firewire support, is this correct? Is there any way to add firewire support to the kernel or do I have to

Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

2004-07-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:34:49AM +0200, Mathias Haas wrote: > Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in during the night today and they > stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire > disk. > At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe t

Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2?

2004-07-26 Thread Mathias Haas
Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in during the night today and they stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire disk. At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't have firewire support, is this correct? Is there any way to ad

How to mount a Firewire disk ?

2004-04-25 Thread EuropeanServers - Christophe BAEGERT
Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD. I set up a FreeBSD-4.9 backup server on a Epia mainboard with 4 HD of 120 gigs, and want to add an external backup of 120Gb. Of course, I need firewire to have acceptable speeds. The VT6303 chipset is detected, but I don't see da0. This is what I see i

Re: Good PCI Firewire Card?

2004-04-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004, Michael Barrett wrote: >Can anyone reccomend a good PCI Firewire card that has good >support in FreeBSD 5.2.1? I've had good results with Adaptec and SIIG cards. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Softwa

improper mounting of firewire hard disk crashes system

2004-04-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi all, I tried to mount my Firewire Hard disk; but this was taking a long time, I killed off KDE (CTRL+ALT+BACK_SPACE), and from root prompt rebooted the machine. Then: fsck -Bv / fsck -Bv /usr fsck -Bv /tmp fsck -Bv /var fsck -Bv /home Then I tried to mount the firewire hard disk. When I do this

Good PCI Firewire Card?

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Barrett
Can anyone reccomend a good PCI Firewire card that has good support in FreeBSD 5.2.1? -- Mike Barrett | "We have veggie bacon, why don't we have [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Firewire Drive Not Recognized During Boot - SOLVED!

2004-04-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/1/2004 3:12 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm using 4.9-RELEASE-p4 and have an 80 GB IDE hard drive in a firewire enclosure. When I reboot my system, the drive is not recognized. However if I unplug/plug the firewire cable, then the drive is recognized. I've included my dmesg ou

how to access an external HDD via firewire

2004-04-06 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
HI I am a total newbie to all things related to USB2 and Firewire. I have a 10GB external hard disk formatted in FAT32. It is the only single partition. FreeBSD 5.2.1, P3-866Mhz, 256 MB RAM. Use a PCI Firewire card. DMesg recognizes this as LUCENT FW 322/323. I have the foll in my kernel config

how to access external hard disk via FireWire

2004-04-05 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
hi all, I have an external hard disk I want to access via firewire. I have a Lucent chipset based PCI firewire card. Using FreeBSD 5.2.1 (x86). I do not have dmesg output at the moment, but I can see messages like firewire0:... How can I verify where a device entry (under /dev) has been created

Re: Firewire Drive Not Recognized During Boot

2004-04-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/2/2004 6:29 AM Stephen Hilton wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:12:35 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using 4.9-RELEASE-p4 and have an 80 GB IDE hard drive in a firewire enclosure. When I reboot my system, the drive is not recognized. However if I unpl

Re: Firewire Drive Not Recognized During Boot

2004-04-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 4/2/2004 6:34 AM Andre Post wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 01:12, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm using 4.9-RELEASE-p4 and have an 80 GB IDE hard drive in a firewire enclosure. When I reboot my system, the drive is not recognized. However if I unplug/plug the firewire cable, then the dri

Firewire Drive Not Recognized During Boot

2004-04-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm using 4.9-RELEASE-p4 and have an 80 GB IDE hard drive in a firewire enclosure. When I reboot my system, the drive is not recognized. However if I unplug/plug the firewire cable, then the drive is recognized. I've included my dmesg output below. Any ideas on what is going on o

Re: Firewire card support

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Schwarzkopf
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:59, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Which firewire cards are currently supported on FreeBSD (I'm looking > to buy one)? man fwohci says: The driver supports the following IEEE 1394 OHCI chipsets. NEC uPD72861 Texas Instruments TSB12LV{22,23,26}, TSB43{

Firewire card support

2004-03-01 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Which firewire cards are currently supported on FreeBSD (I'm looking to buy one)? -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September

NEC PD72874GC FireWire controller on ASUS P4B533-E

2004-02-19 Thread gege
Excuse me! Can you give me drive for windows XP of this FireWire controller - NEC PD72874GC - IEEE 1394? Thank you a lot Write soon. gege P.s. my e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE & Firewire ATA Hard Disk Enclosures

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone here have a mult-drive ATA->Firewire enclosure that they really like? Any ideas on things to look for? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) h

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE & firewire cards

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Has anyone had really good or really bad experiences with Firewire PCI cards that contain a "supported" firewire chipset? Trying to get a list of "sure buys" and "avoid like the plague"'s. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingN

Firewire compact flash reader?

2004-01-06 Thread Richard Tobin
I need a faster compact flash reader. Has anyone used a firewire reader with FreeBSD? Can I expect one to just work, or do some use proprietary protocol variations like many USB readers? -- Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Firewire cards supported

2003-12-13 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:14:24PM -0600, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:49:27PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > Anyone recommend a particular firewire card/brand for use with FreeBSD 4.x > > (and possibly 5.x in the future). > > Forrest, > > the

Re: Firewire cards supported

2003-12-12 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:49:27PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Anyone recommend a particular firewire card/brand for use with FreeBSD 4.x > (and possibly 5.x in the future). Forrest, the handbook has info on which chipsets are supported. You just need to find out what chipset is

Firewire Camera Support

2003-12-02 Thread Benjamin Close
Hi All, With FreeBSD -Current containing a firewire driver, is there any projects underway to support firewire camera's? Cheers, Benjamin -- 3D Research Associate / System Administrator +61 8 8302 3669 School of Computer and Information Science Room D1-07, ML Campus Universi

NEC PD72874GC FireWire controller on ASUS P4B533-E

2003-11-20 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC with ASUS P4B533-E motherboard, which includes the NEC PD72874GC FireWire controller. As I'm looking for a not-too-expensive backup solution for this machine, I was thinking of external HDD. Since FreeBSD 4.8 supports only USB 1.0, USB HDDs are

firewire disk failure

2003-11-15 Thread Ryan Clancey
about a month ago, i bought a maxtor external firewire disk. it worked great for the majority of that time. today, though, it appears to have failed quite spectacularly. my machine was hung, and after rebooting, i ran fsck on the disk, and got the following error: (da0:sbp0:0:0:0): READ(10

Using extrn DVD writer HP-300e (USB/firewire) with 4.9 or 5.1?

2003-11-12 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I am trying to use an hp 300e external dvd writer from FreeBSD. The links I found so far suggest this isn't possible or available yet. But those pages were old (Sep 2002?). Has anything changed recently? The drive supports both USB as well as firewire - any option (however slow) is ok f

What support for USB2/Firewire External HDD in 4.8

2003-11-04 Thread Martyn Hill
Hi I have been trying to evaluate the support offered under 4.8 for external USB2/Firewire drives. I've browsed the firewire mailing list archive but am still left unsure. In particular, has anyone had experience or knowledge on the Adaptec "DuoConnect" AUA3020 PCI card (dual US

configuring a firewire scanner

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Diekhans
I would like to get a firewire scanner working on FreeBSD 5.1. It seems that the approach to this is to use the pt driver via sbp. The scanner is recognized, however sbp gets attached to pass0 (pt is linked in the kernel). I been digging through the code, but have not yet come to an

Re: firewire vs IDE DVD.

2003-08-27 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
There is no /dev/acd0c on my system :-) Just a /dev/acd0 and a /dev/acd0t01 (neither of which work). Adam On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On 15:03 Tue 26 Aug , Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > Anyone? The same IDE drive plays back DVDs with mplayer under NetBSD > > without

Re: firewire vs IDE DVD.

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On 15:03 Tue 26 Aug , Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Anyone? The same IDE drive plays back DVDs with mplayer under NetBSD > without any problems, however NetBSD seems to be using some IDE-to-SCSI > emulation. Is it impossible to get IDE DVD drives to play back DVD > videose under FreeBSD? I'm

Re: firewire vs IDE DVD.

2003-08-26 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
ing on. Still no luck. > > *Any* ideas? > > Adam > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > I'm hoping someone can help me out here. > > > > I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD > > box to an

Re: firewire vs IDE DVD.

2003-08-25 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
gt; I'm hoping someone can help me out here. > > I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD > box to another computer. I replaced it with an IDE DVD drive. The > probelm is that now I can't get mplayer or vlc to play any DVDs that had > pr

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