Re: usb 2 or firewire in stable?
At Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:57:38 + (GMT), Andrew Gordon wrote: On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Aaron Wohl wrote: Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 speeds. I am using firewire to do exactly that. Cheap firewire cards in all my machines, couple of 180G external firewire hard drives as the storage media. I put a normal filesystem on the drive, then run 'dump' through gzip to create backups. Firewire support has been in -stable for a few months now. It works well in general; throughput is good, the only problems I have run into relate to error handling under fault conditions (at one point I had a loose power connection on a drive, which lead to lock-ups rather than more graceful error handling). Just plug in again. It sould restart transactions again in theory.. The driver freeze the CAM device queue if it losts the device, until the device come up again or the device doesn't come up after several bus resets. /\ 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
Re: usb 2 or firewire in stable?
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:52:50AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 02:09, Aaron Wohl wrote: Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 speeds. I don't think anyone has merged USB 2.0 support from NetBSD yet.. (USB 2.0 cards look exactly the same as USB 1.1 for older drivers) That's right. The framework is in place for usb 2 in -current, but the actual driver (ehci) hasn't been ported yet. If anyone fancies doing it be my guest, it shouldn't be too hard. Joe -- Josef Karthauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. = msg52905/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
usb 2 or firewire in stable?
Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 speeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: usb 2 or firewire in stable?
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Aaron Wohl wrote: Is anyone using usb 2 or fireware in 4.7 stable? If so how? I need one or the other to do backups to an external disk. The machine is a production machine tho so I cant really go to current yet. I tried some usb 2 cards. They show up as usb 1 cards and work ok but only at usb 1 speeds. I am using firewire to do exactly that. Cheap firewire cards in all my machines, couple of 180G external firewire hard drives as the storage media. I put a normal filesystem on the drive, then run 'dump' through gzip to create backups. Firewire support has been in -stable for a few months now. It works well in general; throughput is good, the only problems I have run into relate to error handling under fault conditions (at one point I had a loose power connection on a drive, which lead to lock-ups rather than more graceful error handling). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
