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Hi there,

What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within
Linux ..
I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD My
Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire...

Cheers,

Pete.

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Linux and firewire drives

Submitted by dd-b@dd-b.net on Thu, 2007-03-01 15:00.

> Hi there,
>
> What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within
> Linux ..
> I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD
> My
> Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire...

I'm using individual drives in external cases attached to a Sarge system
via firewire with very little trouble. I believe I have to manually force
a bus scan to get the drive recognized after it's connected sometimes.

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Linux and firewire drives

Submitted by Ron Johnson on Thu, 2007-03-01 16:00.

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> Hi there,
>
> What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within
> Linux ..
> I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the
> WD My Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire...

I've been using an external firewire drive since Woody. No problems.

> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Pete.
>

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Linux and firewire drives

Submitted by Gregory Seidman on Thu, 2007-03-01 16:00.

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:03:46PM -0000, Pete Clarke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within
> Linux ..
> I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD
> My Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire...

I have a RAID1 running on a pair of external FW drives. I've found that
Linux is picky about the chipset on the external drives, however, and have
had some cases that work under MacOS X not work at all under Linux. I also
ran into a situation in which two identical cases could not be
distinguished, though either one worked individually.

> Cheers,
> Pete.
--Greg

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Linux and firewire drives

Submitted by Pete Clarke on Thu, 2007-03-01 17:00.

> I have a RAID1 running on a pair of external FW drives. I've found that
> Linux is picky about the chipset on the external drives, however, and have
> had some cases that work under MacOS X not work at all under Linux. I also
> ran into a situation in which two identical cases could not be
> distinguished, though either one worked individually.

Interesting..
I have been looking at replacing my home backup server - it's currently a
Proliant 6500, with 7 x 73gb drives...wanted to run something a little less
thirsty :-)
I have a Proliant DL360 (190watts vs 750 for the 6500) - I was going to fit
a firewire card to it and run either the duo, or a couple of the Western
Digital 500GB MyBook Premium USB/Firewire drives (2 x 500GB mirrored).
It currently has 9 machines backing up to it, a combination of Linux (sarge
on 386 hardware) and Solaris (9 and 10), speed is not a huge issue, it is on
a seperate vlan so traffic is seperated....I was just wondering if the
firewire drives was a feasable thing to do..

Cheers

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Linux and firewire drives

Submitted by Paul Johnson on Thu, 2007-03-01 20:00.

Pete Clarke wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within
> Linux ..

In konqueror...

gg:ieee1394 linux hard drive

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