This sounds great. I asked a while back about increasing the number of ide drives, but I didn't get much encouragement from the list. I will have to look into this.
Thanks, Joel On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:28:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:57:31PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > >Does this work with linux? > > Didn't I say I was using it with Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0? Last I looked that > qualifies as Linux :-). > > Under Mandrake 9.0, the appropriate ieee1394 modules are loaded > automatically including spb2 which is needed for the automatic device > selection. In fact, the mdk9.9 installation routines found the FireWire > disk before it found the SCSI hard drive, assigning it as /dev/sda which > wasn't exactly what I had in mind. I turned the drive off during > installation, then after everything was installed and booted normally, I > turned the drive back on, and mounted it. I haven't tried rebooting the > system with the external drive on. > > >Joel > >> > When was the last time you looked at FireWire pricing? I bought an Adaptec > >> > FireConnect 4300 PCI card at CompUSA about a month ago for about $50US, an > >> > external ADS chassis for $99.95, and a Maxtor 120GB IDE drive for it for > >> > another $99.95. I bought an external 120GB LaCie drive about six months > >> > ago at an Apple store for $350.00US. > >> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
