Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-11-12 Thread John D. Baker
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, John D. Baker wrote: > IBM ThinkCenter with a FireWire card installed. In each case, the > -current/i386 as they require less digging and scratching to set up Dug out the ThinkCentre S51 to build packages for netbsd-9/i386 and -current/i386 (9.99.75). While the internal

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-23 Thread Rhialto
On Thu 22 Oct 2020 at 14:05:26 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > On 2020-10-21 15:29, Michael van Elst wrote: > > Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? > > I would love to, but - has it ever been usable? My first laptop, almost 20 years ago I guess, had very slow USB and

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-22 Thread John D. Baker
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:29:22 - (UTC), mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) wrote: > Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? I use it on occasion and when I do it's with mass storage (hard disk, CD/DVD-RW drive). Mostly on i386, some amd64, and

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-22 Thread Hauke Fath
On 2020-10-21 15:29, Michael van Elst wrote: Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? I would love to, but - has it ever been usable? Attaching a firewire disk to % uname -a NetBSD Gstoder 9.99.48 NetBSD 9.99.48 (GA-MA770-UD3-$Revision$) #0: Thu Oct 22 12:43:04

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/10/2020 16:47, Michael van Elst wrote: mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk (Mike Pumford) writes: I'm trying it with a Sparc workstation running -current. It doesn't look very stable there. It would be interesting to find a hardware combination where it does work reliably. Okay. I'll see if I can

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-21 Thread Michael van Elst
mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk (Mike Pumford) writes: >On 21/10/2020 14:29, Michael van Elst wrote: >> Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? >> >I'm not using it on a regular basis but I do have systems with hardware >and a mass storage enclosure I could attach to

Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

2020-10-21 Thread Mike Pumford
On 21/10/2020 14:29, Michael van Elst wrote: Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? I'm not using it on a regular basis but I do have systems with hardware and a mass storage enclosure I could attach to them. Currently the firewire equipped systems are 8.2-STABLE