William Coulter wrote:
>I am looking into buying a hard drive enclosure that is firewire. Has anyone used or know anyone
>has used this enclosure before? What about this firewire card as well?
>
>
All firewire 400 cards I've ever used are OHCI devices. Just load the
"ohci1394" kernel driver.
All harddrive enclosures use the SBP2 protocol. Just load the "sbp2"
kernel driver (this is like "usb_storage" for USB enclosures), and the
scsi driver "scsi_mod", and the scsi disk "sd_mod" driver.
>I have SUSE 10.1 and 9.3 running. Am I going to run into problems? I may have asked this
>question before but this is some new stuff and I need to buy this stuff today, if I can.
>
>
You really shouldn't have a problem.
If you're trying to do something crazy like share one Firewire enclosure
between 4 systems with a filesystem like GFS or OCFS2, you'll want an
enclosure that supports "logins", like the Oxford 911 chipset. But
that's something well beyond what you're probably looking for.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> <icblenke@nks.net> http://ian.blenke.com/
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