Was Re: [Cooker] LVM & Diskdrake & Some RPMS not installing right & no HDLISTS Found
I have a spare firewire interface card that I could send you Guillaume, but we'd still need to do something about the firewire hard drives. I have an 80 Gig Firewire drive that has 60 Gigs worth of stuff on it. I would be willing to send this to you if you could preserve the integrity of the data on the drives. It is possible to remove the drive from enclosure and use it as if it were an IDE drive. If I had a spare IDE drive I would simply ghost the data off to another drive. Maybe you could just put another IDE drive into the adaptor. Let me know if I can be of help to Mandrake in supporting Firewire in this or any other way. -Joe Baker On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 05:55, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Joe Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FIREWIRE... > > Is there a way to support firewire devices durring the installation. > > For low budget large storage arrays I know of no better solution than > > to create an array of Firewire storage devices using the Logical Volume > > Manager. > > I've asked our hardware team to buy/obtain a firewire adapter and > extension some time ago, in order to have preliminary > support/detection during install, but we still have nothing by > hands, so adding support is kinda hard. > > Also, the support in the linux kernel is still young, for example > there is not yet any really efficient way to detect peripherals > (it's inferior to pci and usb detection since the driver report > only to syslog what's plugged when the driver is included in the > kernel, there is no /proc interface to read detection > information). > > > Here's a link that talks about supporting firewire storage on Mandrake. > > http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1501&lang=en > > I envision having multiple firewire cards with up to 63 hard drives > > interfaced per card. Also striping data across interfaces to increase > > IO performance. > > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ -- Joe Baker Systems Administrator Wauwatosa Police Department 414-471-8430 x 106 Office 414-237-9211 Pager 414-788-8284 Cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text Messaging
