[LUNI] Recommendations for IEEE 1394 PCI card

Stephen Boulet stephen at theboulets.net
Fri Apr 9 14:01:49 CDT 2004


On Friday 09 April 2004 12:08 pm, jgd42-luni at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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

Well, I can always test it since I have the hardware. I'll post to the list 
with my experiences.

-- 
Stephen      
              From here to there
             and there to here,
           funny things are everywhere.  -- Dr Seuss



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