[LUNI] Recommendations for IEEE 1394 PCI card

[jgd42-luni at yahoo.com]

--- Stephen Boulet <stephen at theboulets.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:32 pm, Tom Yarrish wrote:
> > Speaking from trying the external hard drive with firewire, and using two
> > different cards, you'll still run into the lockups.  There are some
> > parameters that you can pass to the sbp2 module that will help, but I went
> > through a lot of reformatting external firewire drives before I finally
> > went to usb drives.  And I still run into lockups on that.
> 
> That's discouraging. Maybe cheap external hard drives (regular ide drives
> that 
> have a USB or 1394 kit around them) for backup are just not a good idea, 
> especially with tools like rdiff-backup where you give them a good thrashing.
> 
> Maybe a better route would be a PCI card for another IDE bus. 
> 
> Any suggestions for that?


We've been using many firewire drives at work. They are under moderate usage
daily (copying 300-1000 MB / day to the drives on average).  We haven't had any
problems with the computers locking up (at least not with the newest kernels).
I would stay away from Maxtor though. Our second one just died today.
We've had good luck with Buslink and a no-name drive. We also have a couple
LaCie's that we recently got. So far no problems but it's only been a couple of
months. The 2 Maxtor drives died after a year.

-Joe

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