Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Perry
I am pretty sure that Oxford 911 is a family of parts. The current Oxford Firewire parts are the 934 and 936 families. It appears that the Oxford 911 was commonly used in drive enclosures. The most troublesome part in my experience is the Initio INIC-1430. It does not get along with scsa1394

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-28 Thread Alan Perry
Which firewire card? Any firewire card that is OHCI compliant, which is almost any add-on firewire card that you would buy new these days. The bigger question is the firewire drive that you want to use or, more precisely, the 1394-to-ATA (or SATA) bridge used by the drive. Some work better

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Perry
I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do questions that I could not answer (mostly because I know almost nothing about