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Re: [cobalt-users] Firewire
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Firewire
- From: Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Aug 19 22:48:31 2002
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Rick Eames wrote:
>
> So I need to add an external drive to my Qube to act as a
> backup media server...I'd love to use firewire as those
> drives tend to be cheaper than the SCSI ones, and easier
> to plug in and swap.
>
> Has anyone pulled this off yet? How difficult?
It will be _very_ difficult as we do not offer FireWire ports on any of our
servers or appliances...
USB isn't an option either as USB storage is not supported by the 2.2
kernel...
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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Communications Market Area
Sun Microsystems - San Diego, CA
E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
T: 877-718-3569 / x69369