Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261503AbVATUXu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261823AbVATUXu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:50 -0500 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:61313 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261503AbVATUXs (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:48 -0500 Subject: Re: IEEE-1394 and disks From: "Trever L. Adams" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1106250812.3413.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1106250812.3413.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:23:47 -0700 Message-Id: <1106252627.3413.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 (2.0.3-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1565 Lines: 40 By bridge chips I mean IEEE-1394 to IDE. Also, is it possible to set spin down time for these IDE disks through 1394? i.e. if they are inactive for 1 hour, I would like them to spin down. Is this possible? Trever On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:53 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > I have a few questions: How stable is firewire (running at 800Mbps or > faster, if any is available yet)? How stable is the Linux subsystem, > especially for firewire disks? Is there any particularly 800Mbps bridge > chips that should be avoided or used? > > How stable is the subsystem when the chain is nearly full (62 devices is > full right?) > > How many controllers may be in the system before the Firewire subsystem > gets confused? > > Trever Adams > -- > "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a > miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert > Einstein > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- "If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it." -- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/