Anyone used a 1394 Firewire Disk on SuSE 7.3 Pro?
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I've yet to get any useful information about 1394 Firewire disk support under SuSE 7.3 Pro from the SuSE hardware database. Is anyone using 1394 Firewire disks under SuSE? You can get a large disk for the money on Firewire, which would seem to be fine for a nightly backup repository... Maxtor Direct offers a 160 GB 3000XT external disk, with 1394 FireWire, i.LINK interface, for $399.95. Seems like a lot of disk for the money, if it will work with SuSE 7.3... Chris Shaker
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Poking around the kernel sources makes it look like it should work, whether or not SuSE supports it. Found this in in '/usr/src/linux/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c': * Current Support: * * The SBP-2 driver is still in an early state, but supports a variety of device * I have read/written many gigabytes of data from/to SBP-2 drives, and have see * performance of more than 16 MBytes/s on individual drives (limit of the media * transfer rate). * * Following are the devices that have been tested successfully: * * - Western Digital IEEE-1394 hard drives * - Maxtor IEEE-1394 hard drives ... Chris Shaker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher John Shaker" <cjshaker@shaker-net.com> To: "SuSE Linux Questions" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: [SLE] Anyone used a 1394 Firewire Disk on SuSE 7.3 Pro?
I've yet to get any useful information about 1394 Firewire disk support under SuSE 7.3 Pro from the SuSE hardware database.
Is anyone using 1394 Firewire disks under SuSE? You can get a large disk for the money on Firewire, which would seem to be fine for a nightly backup repository...
Maxtor Direct offers a 160 GB 3000XT external disk, with 1394 FireWire, i.LINK interface, for $399.95. Seems like a lot of disk for the money, if it will work with SuSE 7.3...
Chris Shaker
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