Oops, I don't read this list so often.. Please post FireWire related problems to freebsd-firewire.
At Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:33:43 -0600, Aaron Wohl wrote: > > The maxtor 5000xx series does not work on 4.7 or 5.0 for all variations > of stable/currrent/standard. This is for USB1 USB2 and firewire. Tested > with many different usb and firewire controllers. Newing a newfs on usb2 > on one of these disks with 5.0 (4.7 doesnt support usb2) crashes the os > with a bad page fault every time. Under firewire the OS doesnt really > recognize them as disks and get them fully mounted. Could you send me the output of 'fwcontrol -d node_id_of_the_drive' ? > Some of the older enclosers you add your own drive to kind of work with > firewire. However id advise you do transfer some large files (say > 200megabyte) to the disk make many copies then check the md5 checksums. > Also check the dmesg logs. The other enclosures I tried worked ok for > smaller files but go timeouts and trashed data on largers files. Are you still getting the problem with the latest code? > The adaptec fireconnect and universal (usb2+firewirecards) seem to work > fine by themselfs. All of controller cards seemed ok. Its just something > messed up with using them for disks. > > Tests where conducted on 4.7 (standard,stable), 5.0 (standard, current) > using a 120gb maxtor DV5000 a 250gb maxtor DV5000, and ADS enclosure with > a maxtor disk added to it, a USB2 enclosure "USB2.0 slim its labled" from > compusa. This with 5 different computers (various motherboards). > > We ended up going with tape backups. /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message