The last time I looks there was no Firewire or Firewire disk support in the Kernel.
Expect that if it is done at some stage that it is done correctly, you won't get Disk support without Firewire being supported as a bus type (no quick hacks here). -Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dag Wastberg Sent: 13 June 2006 18:48 To: Donald J. Ankney; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution On 3/20/06, Donald J. Ankney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire > drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows > boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through > tar for remote linux/BSD boxes. I've been using this solution across > several platforms (all servers) for a year now, and it has worked well. Does firewire work under OpenBSD? According to http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html firewire is unsupported. What is the state of firewire support (for external discs)? I have an upcoming install for which I've written off OpenBSD due to this, and I'd very much like to be able to use it. Dag
