Excellent job on the firewire support!

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Sun Jul 18 12:39:30 PDT 2004


On Sunday 18 July 2004 18:51, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to say that I used FreeBSD's firewire and sbp-II
> support for the first time this weekend.  It seems to be fast (over
> 26MB/sec writes, 34MB/sec reads to a LaCie 160GB drive), and robust. 
> It works well on non-i386 platforms -- I'm using it to back up an
> amd64, and to serve as a root device for a FreeBSD/powerpc  machine.
>
> All in all, it totally exceeded my expectations.  Thank you very
> much|

Wait till you try debugging using gdb over firewire with dcons. An all 
round positive experience :-)


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