[ale] NAS ( + USB, 1394, etc.)

[aaron]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 16:22, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > You know how long it takes to fsck a 120gb partition on usb 1.1?
> > On 2.0 I keep getting error messages "refusing I/O to dead device".
> > If I dropped it to 1.1 it would work but be too slow to be usable.
> 
> I use an external USB/FireWire drive for backups and such,
> and I feel compelled to say: FireWire Rocks! - Fast and Smooth.
> I even have an extrenal FireWire DVD Burner.. It rocks under Linux or 
> M$-Crap.

Have to agree with you on Firewire.

For a couple of years I have been using various external drives in IEEE-1394 
(Firewire) A(400) & B(800)  cases for my media work, including a couple of 
external DVD burners. Most of the disks belong to clients, but I do own a 
couple of them.  The Firewire storage connectivity has been very reliable 
with all the OSeX Macs I use and the (Pioneer) DVD burners were total connect 
and cook with Mandrake linux and a ~$10, 3 port, generic 1394 card.

One burner case is a USB / 1394 combo so we can  connect USB 2.0 to the one 
windoze eXcrement Pile system we still have around for legacy support.  We're 
going to switch the XPee box  over to 1394 so we can support all our data 
drives there as well, but we have to purchase and install a Mac HFS+ file 
system utility first.

I've been watching for HFS+ file system support on Linux (so I can use share 
my media drives there as well), and it appears there is some revived interest 
there and some solid solutions may be available soon.


peace
aaron