Re: IEEE-1394 and disks

[Trever L. Adams]

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
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