Is support for firewire external disks doing okay? Was it okay around kernel 2.4.18? Does one have to be careful about firewire cards and/or disks/enclosures, and if so what are the okay ones? I'm looking at an external hard drive as a possible backup solution for a linux server. Oh, and does it handle hot plugging okay? Firewire hardware does, but does the software, or does it get confused? (Because this is a backup solution, I'm looking for cheap rather than super-fast-server-grade controller cards.) (I'm assuming firewire will outperform USB 2 for this application, but it might not if the Linux support were bad enough; if I really should be looking at USB 2 instead, then same question about USB 2 controller cards. This old system is PCI bus but doesn't support such modern things as USB or firewire on the motherboard.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list